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18 As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.(A)

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19 (A)Go, therefore,[a] and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,

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Footnotes

  1. 28:19 Therefore: since universal power belongs to the risen Jesus (Mt 28:18), he gives the eleven a mission that is universal. They are to make disciples of all nations. While all nations is understood by some scholars as referring only to all Gentiles, it is probable that it included the Jews as well. Baptizing them: baptism is the means of entrance into the community of the risen one, the Church. In the name of the Father…holy Spirit: this is perhaps the clearest expression in the New Testament of trinitarian belief. It may have been the baptismal formula of Matthew’s church, but primarily it designates the effect of baptism, the union of the one baptized with the Father, Son, and holy Spirit.

15 (A)He said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.

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47 and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.(A) 48 You are witnesses of these things.(B)

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