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MARK 6:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Mark 6:11Mark 6:13
“And they went out, and preached that men should repent.”
They went out and preached that people should repent — the disciples' message is the same as John the Baptist's (Mark 1:4) and Jesus' (Mark 1:15): repentance in response to the kingdom's arrival. The disciples preach the same message they received, extending its geographic reach throughout Galilee while Jesus continues his own circuit. The simplicity of the summary (they preached that people should repent) communicates the continuity between Jesus' ministry and theirs: the content is not original to the disciples but transmitted from the Teacher.

Church Fathers on Mark 6:12

The Lord not only preached in the cities, but also in villages, that we may learn not to despise little things, nor always to seek for great cities, but to sow the word of the Lord in abandoned and lowly villages.

Theophylact · 11th century

Now our kind and merciful Lord and Master did not grudge His servants and their disciples His own virtues, and as He Himself had healed every sickness and every infirmity, so also He gave the same power to His disciples.

Bede · 8th century · in Marc., 2, 24

Or else; according to Matthew, the Lord immediately subjoined, 'The workman is worthy of his meat,' [Matt 10:19] which sufficiently proves why He forbade their carrying or possessing such things; not because they were not necessary, but because He sent them in such a way as to shew, that they were due to them from the faithful, to whom they preached the Gospel.

Augustine · 4th century · de Con. Evan., 2, 30
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