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Matthew 28:16

Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

KJV

Οἱ δὲ ἕνδεκα μαθηταὶ ἐπορεύθησαν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν εἰς τὸ ὄρος οὗ ἐτάξατο αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς,

Greek NT

Undecim autem discipuli abierunt in Galilæam in montem ubi constituerat illis Jesus.

Vulgate

But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

ASV

And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

People Jesus
Places Galilee

In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Γαλιλαία
galilaia
noun · 62×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
μαθητής
mathetes
noun · 261×
οὗ
ou
adverb · 24×
πορεύομαι
poreuomai
verb · 155×
τάσσω
tasso
verb · 9×
ἕνδεκα
endeka
adjective · 6×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὄρος
oros
noun · 64×

Theophany

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§645By means of touch and the sharing of a meal, the risen Jesus establishes direct contact with his disciples. He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his Passion.508 Yet at the same time this authen…
§857The Church is apostolic because she is founded on the apostles, in three ways: - she was and remains built on "the foundation of the Apostles,"362 The witnesses chosen and sent on mission by Christ himself;363 - with the help of the Spirit dwelling in her, the Church keeps and hands on the teaching,364 The "good deposit," the salutary words she has heard from the apostles;365 -…
§1444In imparting to his apostles his own power to forgive sins the Lord also gives them the authority to reconcile sinners with the Church. This ecclesial dimension of their task is expressed most notably in Christ's solemn words to Simon Peter: "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on ear…
1. Tomorrow ends the period of forty days which separate the moment of the resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ from his Ascension. This is also the moment of the Master's definitive separation from the Apostles and disciples. In such an important moment, Christ entrusts to them the mission that he himself received from the Father and began on earth: "As the Father has sent me…

Cross-references

  • Acts 1:3 — To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
  • Acts 1:13 — And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon
  • Acts 13:31 — And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
  • John 21:1 — After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself.
  • Mark 14:28 — But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
  • Mark 16:7 — But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
  • Mark 16:14 — Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
  • Matt 26:32 — But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
  • Matt 26:32 — But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
  • Matt 28:7 — 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.
  • Matt 28:7 — 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.
  • Matt 28:10 — Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.