What Does Mark 13:10 Mean?
And the good news must first be cried out among all nations.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And the gospel must first be published among all nations.THE KEY
The good message reaches every people by being heralded aloud; its nature is movement outward.
THE MEANING
The good message moves beyond the boundaries of any one people and reaches all peoples. Its movement is public proclamation: something heard and carried onward.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that the message belongs within one community alone, or is meant to remain private, gives way to its movement among all peoples.
THE ROOT
κηρυχθῆναι
kērychthēnai
GROWS FROM
κηρύσσω
kērussō
To proclaim publicly, as a herald announces a message.
“cried out” in this verse is kērychthēnai. The Greek word family names both the herald and the proclamation. The verse presents the good message as something voiced outward, moving until it reaches every people.
ALSO GROWS
kēryx: Herald; one who publicly announces a message.
κῆρυξ
The herald is the human voice that carries the message beyond its point of origin.
kērygma: Proclamation; the message announced.
κήρυγμα
The same word family joins the act of proclaiming with the message that travels through it.
THE PATTERN
The good message moves outward through public witness until it crosses every human boundary.
Recount his weight among the nations; his wonders among all peoples.But you will take hold of power when the Set-Apart Breath comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the farthest edge of the ground.And I perceive another messenger flying in the midst of heaven, holding the good news of the ages to bring it to those who sit upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people.THE THREAD
How then will they call upon him in whom they have not trusted? And how will they trust the one of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a herald?“Published” in Mark and “preacher” in Romans come from the same Greek word family for heralding. The connection reveals the human hinge in the verse: the message reaches people through a voice that carries it.
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