This ¹  report ²  about Jesus ³  circulated ⁴  throughout ⁵  Judea and all the surrounding country.

The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. ¹ 

Now those who had been forced to scatter went around proclaiming the good news of the word.

Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word ¹  of Christ. ² 

But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,

Now ¹  I want you to know, brothers and sisters, ²  that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. ³ 

But ¹  we did not surrender to them ²  even for a moment, ³  in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you. ⁴ 

But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

This ¹  accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God ²  that was entrusted to me. ³ 

So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People ¹  brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, ²  paralytics, and those possessed by demons, ³  and he healed them.

And Mary ¹  said, ²  “My soul exalts ³  the Lord, ⁴ 

But the word of God ¹  kept on increasing ²  and multiplying.

For we were not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach as far as you, because we were the first to reach as far as you with the gospel about Christ. ¹ 

Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost ¹  that was at Geba and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul alerted ²  all the land saying, “Let the Hebrews pay attention!”

While they were still on their way, the following report reached David: “Absalom has killed all the king’s sons; not one of them is left!”

The people cry out, ¹  “We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! ²  Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby!

One runner after another will come to the king of Babylon. One messenger after another will come bringing news. ¹  They will bring news to the king of Babylon that his whole city has been captured. ² 

When the news ¹  reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.

And every day both in the temple courts ¹  and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news ²  that Jesus was the Christ. ³ 

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted ¹  the word of God. ²