And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.

So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.”

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”

And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.

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Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him,

“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.

And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.