Mark 16:16-18 are peculiar to this Gospel and quite characteristic. They may have been uttered on the mountain in Galilee, or more likely still, just before the Ascension, mentioned immediately afterwards (Mark 16:19).

Preach the gospel, proclaim the glad tidings; not simply give instruction in Christian morality, but announce the facts they had been so slow to believe, that Jesus who had been crucified is risen, is the living Saviour for lost men.

To the whole creation. To men chiefly, as the subjects of salvation; but probably not without a reference to the whole moral universe. Comp. Colossians 1:15; Colossians 1:23; Romans 8:19-23. The duty to evangelize the whole world, so plainly stated here, is even strengthened by this view of the passage.

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