“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Mark 16:15 — Greek Interlinear
Church Fathers on Mark 16:15
Mark, when about to finish his Gospel, relates the last appearance of our Lord to His disciples after His Resurrection, saying, 'For the last time He appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat.'
But He appeared when all the eleven were together, that all might be witnesses, and relate to all men what they had seen and heard in common.
But how was this done 'the last time?' The last occasion on which the Apostles saw the Lord upon earth happened forty days after the Resurrection; but would He then have upbraided them for not believing those who had seen Him risen, when they themselves had so often seen Him after His Resurrection? It remains therefore that we should understand that Mark wished to say it in few words, and said 'for the last time,' because it was the last time that He shewed Himself that day,…