The good news is the message about Jesus Christ, what he has done so that believers can be justified in the sight of God (see Acts 13:38–39). In this regard it incorporates truth about the active and passive obedience of Jesus. Jesus actively obeyed God’s law in the place of sinners, thereby securing the right of inheritance/life in God’s presence. He also passively submitted to God’s wrath against sin when he died on the cross, thereby dying the death that sinners deserve.
7 and there they continued to preach the gospel.