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Come, see the place where He was lying. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you into Galilee, there you will see Him; behold, I have told you. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>And they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy and ran to report it to His disciples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>And behold, Jesus met them and greeted them. And they came up and took hold of His feet and worshiped Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Jesus said to them, Do not be afraid; go and take word to My brethren to leave for Galilee, and there they will see Me. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Now while they were on their way, some of the guard came into the city and reported to the chief priests all that had happened. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>And when they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>and said, You are to say, His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>And if this should come to the governors ears, we will win him over and keep you out of trouble. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>And they took the money and did as they had been instructed; and this story was widely spread among the Jews, <i>and is</i> to this day. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Great Commission</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>But the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>When they saw Him, they worshiped <i>Him;</i> but some were doubtful. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/28-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/matthew/28.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/matthew/28.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And his countenance was as lightning, and his raiment as snow. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/matthew/28.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And his look was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/matthew/28.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/matthew/28.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/matthew/28.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />His appearance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/matthew/28.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/matthew/28.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and his countenance was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ellicott/addresses_on_the_revised_version_of_holy_scripture/address_v_public_use_of.htm">Public Use of the Version. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">We have now traced the external, and to some extent the internal history of Revision from the time, some fifty years ago, when it began to occupy the thoughts of scholars and divines, down to the present day. We have seen the steady advance in Church opinion as to its necessity; its earliest manifestations, and the silent progress from what was tentative and provisional to authoritative recognition, and to carefully formulated procedures under the high and venerable sanction of the two Houses of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ellicott/addresses_on_the_revised_version_of_holy_scripture/address_v_public_use_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">C. J. Ellicott—</span><span class="citation2">Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/february_4_lo_i_am.htm">February 4. "Lo, I am with You Alway" (Matt. xxviii. 20). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Lo, I am with you alway" (Matt. xxviii. 20). This living Christ is not the person that was, but the person that still is, your living Lord. At Preston Pans, near Edinburgh, I looked on the field where in the olden days armies were engaged in contest. In the crisis of the battle the chieftain fell wounded. His men were about to shrink away from the field when they saw their leader's form go down; their strong hands held the claymore with trembling grip, and they faltered for a moment. Then the old <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/february_4_lo_i_am.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_16_i_am_with.htm">August 16. "I am with You Alway" (Matt. xxviii. 20). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"I am with you alway" (Matt. xxviii. 20). Oh, how it helps and comforts us in the plod of life to know that we have with us the Christ who spent the first thirty years of His life in the carpenter shop at Nazareth, swinging the hammer, covered with sweat and grimy dust, physically weary as we often are, and able to understand all our experiences of drudgery and labor! and One who still loves to share our common tasks and equip us for our difficult undertakings of hand and brain! Yes, humble sister, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_16_i_am_with.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_11_lo_i_am.htm">September 11. "Lo, I am with You all the Days, Even unto the End of the Age" (Matt. xxviii. 20). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Lo, I am with you all the days, even unto the end of the age" (Matt. xxviii. 20). It is "all the days," not "always." He comes to you each day with a new blessing. Every morning, day by day, He walks with us, with a love that never tires and a blessing that never grows old. And He is with us "all the days"; it is a ceaseless abiding. There is no day so dark, so commonplace, so uninteresting, but you find Him there. Often, no doubt, He is unrecognized, as He was on the way to Emmaus, until you realize <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_11_lo_i_am.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/may_9_all_hail_matt.htm">May 9. "All Hail" (Matt. xxviii. 9). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"All hail" (Matt. xxviii. 9). It was a stirring greeting which the Lord of Life spake to His first disciples on the morning of the resurrection. It is a bright and radiant word which in His name we would speak to His beloved children at the commencement of another day. It means a good deal more than appears on the surface. It is really a prayer for our health, but which none but those who believe in the healing of the body can fully understand. A thoughtful friend suggested once that the word "hail" <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/may_9_all_hail_matt.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_risen_lords_greetings_and.htm">The Risen Lord's Greetings and Gifts</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail.'--MATT. xxviii. 9. 'Then the same day at evening ... came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.' --JOHN xx. 19. So did our Lord greet His sad followers. The first of these salutations was addressed to the women as they hurried in the morning from the empty tomb bewildered; the second to the disciples assembled in the upper room in the evening of the same day. Both are ordinary greetings. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_risen_lords_greetings_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_prince_of_life.htm">The Prince of Life</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. 3. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: 4. And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. 5. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_prince_of_life.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/on_the_mountain.htm">On the Mountain</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17. And when they saw Him, they worshipped Him: but some doubted.' --MATT. xxviii. 16, 17. 'After that, He was seen of above five hundred brethren at once.'--1 COR. xv. 4 To infer an historian's ignorance from his silence is a short and easy, but a rash, method. Matthew has nothing to say of our Lord's appearances in Jerusalem, except in regard to that of the women in the early morning of Easter Day. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/on_the_mountain.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_tomb_of_jesus.htm">The Tomb of Jesus</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"His cross, his manger, and his crown, Are big with glories yet unknown." All his weary pilgrimage, from Bethlehem's manger to Calvary's cross, is, in our eyes, paved with glory. Each spot upon which he trod is, to our souls, consecrated at once, simply because there the foot of earth's Saviour and our own Redeemer once was placed. When he comes to Calvary, the interest thickens; then our best thoughts are centered on him in the agonies of crucifixion, nor does our deep affection permit us to leave <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_tomb_of_jesus.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/baring-gould/the_village_pulpit_volume_ii_trinity_to_advent/xxxvii_christian_unity.htm">Christian Unity. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Trinity Sunday. S. Matt. xxviii. 19. "In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." INTRODUCTION.--An ancient writer informs us that when the Egyptians named their Greatest God who was over all, they cried thrice, "Darkness! Darkness! Darkness!" And when we come to speak of the great mystery of the Holy Trinity, the utmost we can do is to repeat their cry, and say, "Darkness! Darkness! Darkness! In the name of the Father--Darkness, and of the Son--Darkness; and of the Holy <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/baring-gould/the_village_pulpit_volume_ii_trinity_to_advent/xxxvii_christian_unity.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">S. Baring-Gould—</span><span class="citation2">The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/jerusalem_sinner_saved/beginning_at_jerusalem_luke_xxiv_47.htm">Beginning at Jerusalem</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The whole verse runs thus: "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." The words were spoken by Christ, after he rose from the dead, and they are here rehearsed after an historical manner, but do contain in them a formal commission, with a special clause therein. The commission is, as you see, for the preaching of the gospel, and is very distinctly inserted in the holy record by Matthew and Mark. "Go teach all nations," <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/jerusalem_sinner_saved/beginning_at_jerusalem_luke_xxiv_47.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">Jerusalem Sinner Saved</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/matthew/28-3.htm">Matthew 28:3 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/matthew/28-3.htm">Matthew 28:3 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/matthew/28-3.htm">Matthew 28:3 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/matthew/28-3.htm">Matthew 28:3 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/matthew/28-3.htm">Matthew 28:3 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/matthew/28-3.htm">Matthew 28:3 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/matthew/28-3.htm">Matthew 28:3 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../matthew/28-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Matthew 28:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Matthew 28:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../matthew/28-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Matthew 28:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Matthew 28:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/matthew/28-3.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>