Go — and I am with you
“teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.”Matthew 28:20 · WEB
On a mountain in Galilee the eleven meet him, and Matthew adds an honest note: they worshipped him, but some doubted. This is the group being commissioned. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations — baptising them, teaching them — and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. The instruction is global from the first day, given to eleven provincial men with no money, no organisation and no standing. Luke adds that they are to wait in the city until they receive power, and that as he is taken up a cloud hides him, and two men ask why they are standing there looking at the sky.