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MATTHEW 28:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 28:6Matt 28:8
“And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.”
Then go quickly and tell his disciples — the women receive the first resurrection commission: they are the first sent ones, the first apostles in the functional sense of the word. The message has two components: he has risen from the dead (the event) and he is going ahead of you into Galilee (the direction). The Galilee reference fulfills Jesus' word at the Last Supper: after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee (Matthew 26:32). The resurrection does not terminate the shepherd-sheep relationship; the risen Jesus goes before his scattered flock, gathering them back to the place where the ministry began. And see, I have told you — the angel delegates his testimony to the women, making them responsible messengers rather than passive recipients of news. The resurrection commission is always both proclamation received and proclamation transmitted.

Church Fathers on Matthew 28:7

After the mockings and scourgings, after the mingled dr aug hts of vinegar and gall, the pains of the cross, and the wounds, and finally after death itself and Hades, there rose again from the grave a renewed flesh, there returned from obstruction a hidden life, health chained up in death broke forth, with fresh beauty from its ruin.

Pseudo-Chrysostom · 5th century · Hom. de Resur., iii

Concerning the hour when the women came to the sepulchre there arises a question not to be overlooked. Matthew here says, 'On the evening of the Sabbath.' What then means that of Mark, 'Very early in the morning, the first day of the week?' [Mark 16:2]

Augustine · 4th century · de Cons. Ev., iii, 24

Otherwise; It may be understood that they began to come in the evening, but that it was the dawn of the first day of the week when they reached the sepulchre; that is, that they prepared the spices for anointing the Lord’s body in the evening, but that they took them to the sepulchre in the morning. This has been so shortly described by Matthew, that it is not quite clear in his account, but the other Evangelists give the order more distinctly. The Lord was buried on the…

Bede · 8th century · Beda in loc.
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