John Gill's Exposition on Matthew 28:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then the eleven disciples, etc.] For Judas was not only gone from them, but was dead; so that there were now but eleven of them: went away into Galilee: not directly, as soon as the women had delivered their message; for Christ appeared to them the same day at Jerusalem; and so he did at the same place that week; (see <432019>John 20:19, 26), but some time, after this they went together into Galilee, according to Christ’s direction both before and after his resurrection, (<402632>Matthew 26:32 28:10), into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them; either before his death, or since he was risen; and very likely at one of the above interviews he had with them. This is generally thought to be Mount Tabor; but of this there is no proof, nor certainty: it might be the mountain near Capernaum, on which he taught, (<400501>Matthew 5:1), or that, if not the same with the other, near the sea of Galilee, where Christ fed four thousand with seven loaves, and a few fishes, (<401529>Matthew 15:29). A mountain was appointed for this meeting, both for solitariness and for sight; for here it was he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once, (<461506>1 Corinthians 15:6).

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