¹¹While the women were on their way, some of the guards^a went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. ¹²When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, ¹³telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away^b while we were asleep.’ ¹⁴If this report gets to the governor,^c we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” ¹⁵So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.

The Great Commission

¹⁶Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.^d ¹⁷When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. ¹⁸Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.^e ¹⁹Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,^f baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,^g ²⁰and teaching^h them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with youⁱ always, to the very end of the age.”^j

Read in Logos

Matthew 28:18: And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

Cross references

z Mt 12:50; 25:40; Mk 3:34; Jn 20:17; Ro 8:29; Heb 2:11–13, 17
a Mt 27:65, 66
b Mt 27:64
cSee Mt 27:2
dver 7, 10; Mt 26:32
e Da 7:13, 14; Lk 10:22; Jn 3:35; See 13:13; 17:2; 1 Co 15:27; Eph 1:20–22; Php 2:9, 10
f Isa 49:6; Mk 16:15, 16; Lk 24:47; Ac 1:8; 14:21
g Ac 1:8; 2:38; 8:16; Ro 6:3, 4; Gal 3:27; Col 2:12
h Jn 14:26; Ac 2:42
i Dt 31:6; 1 Ki 8:57; Hag 1:13; Mt 18:20; Ac 18:10
j Mt 13:39; 24:3