Mark 6:12
Good News Translation
So they went out and preached that people should turn away from their sins.

New Revised Standard Version
So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent.

Contemporary English Version
The apostles left and started telling everyone to turn to God.

New American Bible
So they went off and preached repentance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And going forth they preached men should do penance:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And going forth they preached men should do penance:

preached.

Mark 1:3,15 A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight his paths. . . .

Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Matthew 3:2,8 And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. . . .

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 9:13 Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

Matthew 11:20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most of his miracles, for that they had not done penance.

Luke 11:32 The men of Ninive shall rise in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it; Because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold more than Jonas here.

Luke 13:3,5 No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish. . . .

Luke 15:7,10 I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance. . . .

Luke 24:47 And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Acts 2:38 But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 3:19 Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

Acts 11:18 Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto life.

Acts 20:21 Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 26:20 But to them first that are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and unto all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that they should do penance and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance.

2 Corinthians 7:9,10 Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because you were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing. . . .

2 Timothy 2:25,26 With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth; . . .

Context
The Ministry of the Twelve
11And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you; going forth from thence, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony to them. 12And going forth they preached men should do penance: 13And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.…
Cross References
Matthew 11:1
And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he passed from thence, to teach and to preach in their cities.

Luke 9:6
And going out, they went about through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing every where.

Mark 6:11
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