Mark 1:14-15

¹⁴ Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

¹⁵ and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

Also found in Matthew 4:12, 17 and Luke 4:14.

preaching (v.14) = making proclamation as a herald

the kingdom of (v.14) — not in many texts

of God (v.14) = from God.

time (v.15) — kairos, referring to a particular time marked by an epochal event, not chronos, time as such. The older order was giving place to a new one, the dispensation of law to the announcement of the good news of God as later defined, the Kingdom of Heaven, namely, the Messianic earth-rule of Messiah. But that rejected by Israel, the gospel of grace and the Age of Grace would be brought in, with the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ functioning in the interim between the rejection of Israel and its dispersion A.D. 70, and its regathering for the Millennial Kingdom. It is like Paul’s “The fullness of times” of Galatians 4:4. — Wuest, page 27.

is fulfilled (v.15) = tense indicates “has been fulfilled”—the change to the kingdom was near at hand.