I announced to those at Damascus and at Jerusalem in the first instance, then all over the land of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they were to repent and turn to God by acting up to their repentance.

So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.

Their sound

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because the report of your faith is over all the world.

This gospel of the Reign shall be preached all over the wide world as a testimony to all the Gentiles, and then the end will come.

I tell you truly, wherever this gospel is preached through all the world, men will speak of what she has done in memory of her."

go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the holy Spirit,

And he said to them, "Go to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature:

which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is.

Unto the ends

Once more the devil conveyed him to an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the realms of the world and their grandeur;

General references

(Ere the end, the gospel must be preached to all nations.)

so shall all flesh see the saving power of God.'