Matthew 4:17

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“From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.””

— WEB

“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

— KJV

“From that time began Jesus to preach, and to say, Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

— ASV

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Matthew 3:2 "“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”"
Mark 1:14-15 "Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,"
Acts 2:38 "Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will rec…"
Luke 5:32 "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”"
Luke 24:47 "and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem."
Acts 17:30 "The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,"
Matthew 9:13 "But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’Hosea 6:6 for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to …"
Luke 15:7 "I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no …"

Commentary

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand--Thus did our Lord not only take up the strain, but give forth the identical summons of His honored forerunner. Our Lord sometimes speaks of the new kingdom as already come--in His own Person and ministry; but the economy of it was only "at hand" until the blood of the cross was shed, and the Spirit on the day of Pentecost opened the fountain for sin and for uncleanness to the world at large. Calling of Peter and Andrew James and John (Mat 4:18-22).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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