 | Leon Morris - Religion - 1990 - 372 pages
...Quite early he tells us that Jesus came preaching the gospel of God and saying, "The time has been fulfilled and the kingdom of God has come near; repent and believe in the gospel" (1:14-15). The kingdom is thus closelv bound up with the good news and with the coming of Jesus;... | |
 | Donald K. McKim, David F. Wright - Religion - 1992 - 452 pages
...18:7; 59:20; Zeph. 3:9ff.;Zech. 14:9). In the NT, Jesus proclaims and embodies the new age: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near;...repent, and believe in the good news" (Mark 1:15; Matt. 4:12-25; Luke 17:21; 21:31). The Sermon on the Mount may be read as proclamation of the possibility... | |
 | Janice Capel Anderson, Stephen D. Moore - Religion - 1993 - 188 pages
...throughout Galilee. The Markan Jesus' first words tell of the urgency of the present time: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent and believe in the good news" (1:15). The Markan narrator's first series of scenes shows this urgency. Immediately Jesus acts; immediately... | |
 | James L. Bailey - Religion - 1992 - 224 pages
...Jesus announces the imminent arrival of "the reign of God," clearly an apocalyptic symbol: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news" (see also Matt. 10:7; 12:28; Luke 11:20). Or, in Mark 14:62, Jesus responds to the high priest's question... | |
 | Priscilla Pope-Levison, John R. Levison - Religion - 1992 - 242 pages
...vision fired the imagination of Jesus to the point where he proclaimed the near presence of this reign: "The kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news" (Mark 1:14-15). 3T He announced this vision in his initial sermon in the synagogue at Nazareth, where he... | |
 | Pope Benedict XVI - Religion - 1992 - 428 pages
...and our hope. May it come about that the whole word of Jesus will be once again fulfilled in us: "... The kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news" 1:15). From: Im Anfang schuf Gott, pp. 58f. February 9 -L he person of Eve, who is described as the... | |
 | Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - Religion - 1992 - 438 pages
...proclaimed the good news of the kingdom and healed every sickness among the people. Matt. 4:23 Or The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe the good news. Mark 1:15 Or C The Spirit of the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor... | |
 | Paul McGlasson - Religion - 1993 - 196 pages
...as a whole. "Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news [gospel] of God, and saying, 'The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news'" (Mark 1:14-15). The first word of the witness of Jesus Christ to God is his witness to the basileia of God,... | |
 | Rodney Clapp - Social Science - 1993 - 210 pages
...Jesus' message. At the beginning of his Gospel, Mark reports Jesus' words to be, more exactly, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news" (1:15). It was the centrality and immediacy of the kingdom that made Jesus' life and message so shocking.... | |
 | Maurice Brouard - Christian education of adults - 1993 - 380 pages
...1. The fulfilment This principle is applied to the notions of time, law and Scripture. • "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the Good News" (Mk 1:15). • " I have come not to abolish the law and the prophets but to fulfil them (Mt 5: 17).... | |
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Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news. 
