Luke 24:47

And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem; first, because Jerusalem was the metropolitan center of the then existing kingdom of God (see - "to the Jew first;" ; ; and see the note at ); and next, because it was the great laboratory and reservoir of all the sin and all the crime of the nation (), and by beginning there, it would he proclaimed for all time that there was mercy in Christ for the chief of sinners (see the note at ).