And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.

But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.”

Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.

No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’”

This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.

So he replied to the messengers, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.

The Parable of the Sower

After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him,

So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.

Additional Teachings

“The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it.

The Authority of Jesus Questioned

One day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him.

In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living.

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.

Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

“Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people all about this new life.”

Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.

Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.’

He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.

But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.