MARK 13:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the gospel must first be published among all nations.”
And the gospel must first be preached to all nations — the preaching of the gospel to all nations is inserted between the persecution promise and the Spirit-provision promise. The must communicates divine necessity: the end cannot come until the gospel has been proclaimed to all nations. The persecution of the disciples does not prevent the mission; it is the context within which the mission happens. The gospel going to all nations is the necessary precondition for the end.
Church Fathers on Mark 13:10
The Lords shews how Jerusalem and the province of Judaea merited the infliction of such calamities, in the following words: 'But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten.'
Fitly also did He premise a recital of those things which concerned the Apostles, that in their own tribulations they might find some consolation in the community of troubles and sufferings.
Matthew adds, 'And then shall the end come.' [Matt 24:14]
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