¹¹While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.^* ¹²After the priests^g had assembled with the elders, they devised a plan to give a large sum of money to the soldiers, ¹³telling them, “You must say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ ¹⁴If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”^* ¹⁵So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story is still told among the Judeans to this day.

The Commissioning of the Disciples

¹⁶Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.^* ¹⁷When they saw him, they worshiped him, but they doubted. ¹⁸And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.^* ¹⁹Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit^* ²⁰and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”^h

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.”

Footnotes

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Cross references

*Rom 8:29; Heb 2:11
*Mt 27:65, 66
*Mt 27:2
*v 7; Mt 26:32
*Dan 7:13, 14; Lk 10:22; Phil 2:9, 10; 1 Pet 3:22
*Lk 24:47; Acts 1:8