The beginning of the Good News about Jesus Christ.

After John had been committed to prison, Jesus went to Galilee, proclaiming the Good News of God--

"The time has come, and the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe the Good News."

Some days later, when Jesus came back to Capernaum, the news spread that he was in a house there;

On this the men who tended them ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country round; and the people went to see what had happened.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, will lose his life shall save it.

"I tell you," said Jesus, "there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, on my account and on account of the Good News,

But the Good News must first be proclaimed to every nation.

And I tell you, wherever, in the whole world, the Good News is proclaimed, what this woman has done will be told in memory of her."

She went and told the news to those who had been with him and who were now in sorrow and tears;

Then he said to them: "Go into all the world, and proclaim the Good News to all creation.