28.16 This has the feeling of a wrap-up, the conclusion; but it remains an open-ended conclusion, and with none of the textual doubt surrounding Mark’s ending.
28.17 This “some doubted” is amazing, I think: a tribute to the resilience of non-belief! Was it because He looked different after the Resurrection; or purely because they did not wish to believe?
28.20 God with us: see 1.23
“All authority…on earth has been given to me.” Jesus is King over all!
“Therefore, go and make disciples, baptising them…” A different kind of kingdom, and a different way of living. I think the best example might have been those Christians in the Roman Empire who suffered and died like Christ, but whose courageous lives eventually persuaded even the Emperor towards Christ. “If Jesus himself is with you, what should you be doing?”
“Therefore, go and make disciples, baptising them…” A different kind of kingdom, and a different way of living. I think the best example might have been those Christians in the Roman Empire who suffered and died like Christ, but whose courageous lives eventually persuaded even the Emperor towards Christ. “If Jesus himself is with you, what should you be doing?”
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