The angel answered, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the very presence of God. I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.

The angel said to them, "Do not be frightened, for I bring you good news of a great joy that is to be felt by all the people,

So with many varied exhortations he would preach the good news to the people,

Under the power of the Spirit Jesus returned to Galilee, and news of him went all over that region.

"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,

And news of him spread to every place in that region.

But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, for that is what I was sent to do."

Yet the news about him spread more and more, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

And he answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. The blind are regaining their sight, the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

Soon afterward he went about among the villages and towns preaching and telling the good news of the Kingdom of God. The Twelve went with him,

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around.

And they set forth and went from village to village, telling the good news and curing people everywhere.

Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you must go and spread the news of the Kingdom of God!"

One day as he was teaching the people in the Temple, and preaching the good news, the high priests and scribes came up with the elders