Matthew 28:16
in Matthew 28Meanwhile, the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain Jesus had designated.
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ASV
But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
KJV
Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
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This verse in Matthew 28
Commentary
6 notes on this verseon Matthew 28:16-17
(Verse 16, 17.) However, the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. After the resurrection, Jesus is seen on a mountain in Galilee and is worshipped there; although some doubt, their doubt strengthens our faith. Then he shows himself more clearly to Thomas and shows him the wound in his side from the spear and the nails in his hands.
This site's exposition
into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them
on Matthew 28:16-17
The eleven, Judas's place still unfilled, obey the risen Christ's own instruction relayed twice now, through the angel and through Jesus himself, and go to the mountain in Galilee, closing the book's mountain thread that opened at the temptation and ran through the Sermon, the feeding, and the transfiguration to this final appointed height. When they see him they worship, using the same word the magi used at 2:2 and the women used two scenes earlier, yet Matthew adds the one honest note the whole Gospel refuses to hide, but some doubted, a doubt the text neither explains away nor lets slide into unbelief, since the very next verse has the doubters commissioned along with everyone else. The worship-and-doubt pairing is Matthew's own realism about faith meeting a resurrection body, wonder and hesitation present in the same room at once.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
To the mountain where Jesus had appointed them - This was probably Mount Tabor, where, (it is commonly supposed) he had been before transfigured. It seems to have been here also, that he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once.
The place was a mountain in Galilee, probably the same mountain on which he was transfigured. There they met, for privacy, and perhaps to signify the exalted state into which he was entered, and his advances toward the upper world. How they were affected with the appearance of Christ to them,
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Then the eleven disciples went - When the women went and told them that they had seen the Lord, and that he had promised to meet them in Galilee. From the eleventh to the fifteenth verse inclusive, should be read in a parenthesis, as the sixteenth verse is the continuation of the subject mentioned in the tenth.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Nothing can account for such a number as five hundred assembling at one spot but the expectation of some promised manifestation of their risen Lord: and the promise before His resurrection, twice repeated after it, best explains this immense gathering.
The words behind it
16 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Οἱ | hoi | <the> | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| δὲ | de | And | G1161 → | 2765 times |
| ἕνδεκα | hendeka | the eleven | G1733 → | |
| μαθηταὶ | mathetai | disciples | G3101 → | 260 times |
| ἐπορεύθησαν | eporeuthesan | went | G4198 → | 147 times |
| εἰς | eis | into | G1519 → | 1755 times |
| τὴν | ten | <the> | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| Γαλιλαίαν | galilaian | Galilee | G1056 → | 61 times |
| εἰς | eis | to | G1519 → | 1755 times |
| τὸ | to | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ὄρος | oros | mountain | G3735 → | 62 times |
| οὗ | hou | where | G3757 → | 24 times |
| ἐτάξατο | etaxato | assigned | G5021 → | |
| αὐτοῖς | autois | to them | G846 → | 5565 times |
| ὁ | ho | <the> | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| Ἰησοῦς. | iesous | Jesus. | G2424 → | 908 times |
Οἱ<the>
hoiG3588 →19766 times
δὲAnd
deG1161 →2765 times
ἕνδεκαthe eleven
hendekaG1733 →
μαθηταὶdisciples
mathetaiG3101 →260 times
ἐπορεύθησανwent
eporeuthesanG4198 →147 times
εἰςinto
eisG1519 →1755 times
τὴν<the>
tenG3588 →19766 times
ΓαλιλαίανGalilee
galilaianG1056 →61 times
εἰςto
eisG1519 →1755 times
τὸthe
toG3588 →19766 times
ὄροςmountain
orosG3735 →62 times
οὗwhere
houG3757 →24 times
ἐτάξατοassigned
etaxatoG5021 →
αὐτοῖςto them
autoisG846 →5565 times
ὁ<the>
hoG3588 →19766 times
Ἰησοῦς.Jesus.
iesousG2424 →908 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 26:32But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”
it leads to
- Matthew 28:10
“Do not be afraid,” said Jesus. “Go and tell My brothers to go to Galilee. There they will see Me.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Luke 18:33–34
They will flog Him and kill Him, and on the third day He will rise again.”
- Matthew 28:10
Through
Mark 16:14Later, as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 15:5
and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.
- Luke 24:36–43
While they were describing these events, Jesus Himself stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”
- Hebrews 3:7–8
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
- 1 Corinthians 15:5
Through
Matthew 28:7Then go quickly and tell His disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him.’ See, I have told you.”
it leads to
- Matthew 26:32
But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”
- Luke 24:22–24
Furthermore, some of our women astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning,
- Matthew 26:32
Through
Matthew 28:10“Do not be afraid,” said Jesus. “Go and tell My brothers to go to Galilee. There they will see Me.”
it leads to
- Romans 8:29
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Romans 8:29
Where this verse is studied
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About Matthew
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Matthew; John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.