MATTHEW 28:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.”
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain Jesus had told them about — the eleven (Judas now absent) travel to Galilee in obedience to the women's report, which they received from the angel and confirmed from the risen Jesus himself. The mountain setting is Matthew's fifth and final mountain: the temptation mountain (Matthew 4), the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5), the transfiguration mountain (Matthew 17), the Mount of Olives (Matthew 24), and now this commissioning mountain in Galilee. Mountains in Matthew are always places of divine disclosure; this mountain is the culminating one. The eleven have returned to the region of the ministry's beginning, closing the geographic arc of Matthew's Gospel: from Galilee to Jerusalem for death, back to Galilee for commissioning.
Church Fathers on Matthew 28:16
When Saint Matthew has vindicated the Lord’s Resurrection as declared by the Angel, he relates the vision of the Lord which the disciples had, 'Then the eleven disciples went into Galilee into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.'
After His Resurrection, Jesus is seen and worshipped in the mountain in Galilee; though some doubt, their doubting confirms our faith.
This is more fully told by Luke; how when the Lord after the Resurrection appeared to the disciples, in their terror they thought they saw a spirit.
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