“And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.”
When Jesus had finished giving instructions to his twelve disciples, he departed to teach and preach in their cities. The transition from instruction to action communicates the relationship between teaching and ministry in Jesus' pattern: he equips the disciples and then models what he has commissioned them to do. The teaching in the towns continues the proclamation of the kingdom that began in chapter 4 — the commission to the disciples does not replace Jesus' own itinerant ministry but extends it.
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