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Matthew 28:20

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Matthew 28:20 (WEB)

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

As quoted in the map (KJV)

Matthew 28:20 (KJV)

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Key words

ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνοςheōs tēs synteleias tou aiōnos · Greek
'unto the end of the world' — Jesus is with us 'until' the end of the age, and not less so afterward.

Why it matters

Jesus promises to be with his disciples 'until the end of the age.' No one concludes he abandons them after that. Pitre uses the verse with Matthew 22:44 and 2 Samuel 6:23 to show what 'until' does and does not mean (p 101), and so to disarm the reading of Matthew 1:25 that has Joseph and Mary beginning marital relations after Jesus' birth.

Catechism · 13

The Paschal Mystery in the Church's Sacraments

  • §1120Article 2 · The Paschal Mystery in the Church's SacramentsRead at vatican.va

    “…to his incarnate Son was committed to the apostles and through them to their successors: they receive the Spirit of Jesus to act in his name and in his person.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 20:21-23; Lk 24:47; Mt 28:18-20.

The Sacrament of Baptism

  • §1223Article 1 · The Sacrament of BaptismRead at vatican.va

    “After his resurrection Christ gives this mission to his apostles: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 28:19-20; cf. Mk 16:15-16.

  • §1257Article 1 · The Sacrament of BaptismRead at vatican.va

    “He also commands his disciples to proclaim the Gospel to all nations and to baptize them.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 28:19-20; cf. Council of Trent (1547) DS 1618; LG 14; AG 5.

The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

  • §1444Article 4 · The Sacrament of Penance and ReconciliationRead at vatican.va

    “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 earth shall be loosed in heaven."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 16:19; cf. Mt 18:18; 28:16-20.

Prologue

  • §2Prologue · PrologueRead at vatican.va

    “…Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 28:19-20

The Battle of Prayer

  • §2743Article 2 · The Battle of PrayerRead at vatican.va

    “It is always possible to pray: the time of the Christian is that of the risen Christ who is with us always, no matter what tempests may arise.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 28:20; Lk 8:24.

The Transmission of Divine Revelation

  • §75Article 2 · The Transmission of Divine RevelationRead at vatican.va

    “This Gospel was to be the source of all saving truth and moral discipline."” — Catechism footnote: DV 7; cf. Mt 28:19-20; Mk 16:15

  • §80Article 2 · The Transmission of Divine RevelationRead at vatican.va

    “Each of them makes present and fruitful in the Church the mystery of Christ, who promised to remain with his own "always, to the close of the age".” — Catechism footnote: Mt 28:20

The Church in God's Plan

  • §767Paragraph 1 · The Church in God's PlanRead at vatican.va

    “As the "convocation" of all men for salvation, the Church in her very nature is missionary, sent by Christ to all the nations to make disciples of them.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 28:19-20; AG 2; 5-6.

The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit

  • §788Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va

    “He promised to remain with them until the end of time; he sent them his Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 14:18; 20:22; Mt 28:20; Acts 2:33.

The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

  • §849Paragraph 3 · The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and ApostolicRead at vatican.va

    “…and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and Lo, I am with you always, until the close of the age."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 28:19-20.

  • §857Paragraph 3 · The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and ApostolicRead at vatican.va

    “The Church is apostolic because she is founded on the apostles, in three ways: - she was and remains built on "the foundation of the Apostles," The witnesses chosen and sent on mission by Christ himself;” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 28:16-20; Acts 1:8; 1 Cor 9:1; 15:7-8; Gal 1:1; etc.

  • §860Paragraph 3 · The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and ApostolicRead at vatican.va

    “Therefore, . . . the apostles took care to appoint successors."” — Catechism footnote: LG 20; cf. Mt 28:20.

Fathers and councils · 80

Origen

  • “And of the same nature is His promise to His disciples: “Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxviii. 20.

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  • “God accordingly, in His kindness, condescends to mankind, not in any local sense, but through His providence; while the Son of God, not only (when on earth), but at all times, is with His own disciples, fulfilling the promise, “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxviii. 20.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

  • “Therefore let those who deny that the Son is from the Father by nature and proper to His Essence, deny also that He took true human flesh of Mary Ever-Virgin; for in neither case had it been of profit to us men, whether the Word were not true and naturally Son of God, or the flesh not true which He assumed.” — editor's note: Vid. also Athan. in Luc. (Migne xxvii. 1393 c). This title, which is commonly applied to S. Mary by later writers, is found Epiph. Hær. 78, 5. Didym. Trin. i.…

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  • “For the Word is near, Who is all things on our behalf, even our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, having promised that His habitation with us should be perpetual, in virtue thereof cried, saying, ‘Lo, I am with you all the days of the world.’” — editor's note: Matt. xxviii. 20.

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Tertullian

  • “Again, in the Psalms, David says: “Bring to God, ye countries of the nations”—undoubtedly because “unto every land” the preaching of the apostles had to “go out”—“bring to God fame and honour; bring to God the sacrifices of His name: take up victims and enter into His courts.”” — editor's note: Comp. Matt. xxviii. 19, 20, Mark xvi. 15, 16, Luke xxiv. 45–48, with Ps. xix. 4 (xviii. 5 in LXX.), as explained in Rom. x. 18.

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John Damascene

Catena Aurea on John

Cyprian of Carthage

Ambrose of Milan

Augustine of Hippo

John Chrysostom

Catena Aurea on Matthew

  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    “Also the Saviour in the Gospel, “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of this world.” [Matt 28:20] Will He then leave His disciples at the end of the world?” — the author cites it

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    “Here a question arises how the Lord should have said elsewhere to His disciples, “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world;” [Matt 28:20] but here, “Me ye shall not have always.”” — the author cites it

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  • OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew

    “Or He means that we should give no heed to those who say, “Lo, here is Christ,” but shew Him not in the Church, in which alone is the coming or the Son of Man, who said, “Lo, I am with you, always even to the end of the world.” [Matt 28:20]” — the author cites it

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  • OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew

    “For He who says to His disciples, “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world,” [Matt 28:20] is the Only-Begotten God, who is not circumscribed by bodily form.” — the author cites it

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    When Saint Matthew has vindicated the Lord’s Resurrection as declared by the Angel, he relates the vision of the Lord which the disciples had, “Then the eleven disciples went into Galilee into a mountain where Jesus…

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    After His Resurrection, Jesus is seen and worshipped in the mountain in Galilee; though some doubt, their doubting confirms our faith.

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  • Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew

    This is more fully told by Luke; how when the Lord after the Resurrection appeared to the disciples, in their terror they thought they saw a spirit. Bede, Hom. Aest. in Fer., vi., Pasch. [ed note: This Homily of Bede…

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew

    But it is to be considered, how the Lord could be seen bodily in Galilee. For that it was not the day of the Resurrection is manifest; for He was seen that day in Jerusalem in the beginning of the night, as Luke and…

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  • Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew

    The disciples then, when they saw Him, knew the Lord; and worshipped Him, bowing their faces to the ground. And He their affectionate and merciful Master, that He might take away all doubtfulness from their hearts,…

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    Power is given to Him, Who but a little before was crucified, Who was buried, but Who afterwards rose again.

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    This He speaks not from the Deity coeternal with the Father, but from the Humanity which He took upon Him, according to which “He was made a little lower than the Angels.” [Heb 2:9]

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  • Peter ChrysologusCatena Aurea on Matthew

    The Son of God conveyed to the Son of the Virgin, the God to the Man, the Deity to the Flesh, that which He had ever together with the Father.

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    Power is given in heaven and in earth, that He who before reigned in heaven, should now reign on earth by the faith of the believers.

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  • Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew

    What the Psalmist says of the Lord at His rising again, “Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands,” [Ps 8:6] this the Lord now says of Himself, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”…

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    He who before His Passion had said, “Go not into the way of the Gentiles,” [Matt 10:5] now, when rising from the dead, says, “Go and teach, all nations.” Hereby let the Jews be put to silence, who say that Christ’s…

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    They first then teach all nations, and when taught dip them in water. For it may not be that the body receive the sacrament of Baptism, unless the soul first receive the truth of the Faith. “In the name of the…

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  • Peter ChrysologusCatena Aurea on Matthew

    Thus all nations are created a second time to salvation by that one and the same Power, which created them to being.

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    And though some one there may be of so averse a spirit as to undertake to baptize in such sort as to omit one of these names, therein contradicting Christ Who ordained this for a law, his baptism will effect nothing;…

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  • Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew

    For what part of the salvation of men is there that is not contained in this Sacrament? All things are full and perfect, as proceeding from Him who is full and perfect. The nature of His relation is expressed in the…

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    Observe the order of these injunctions. He bids the Apostles first to teach all nations, then to wash them with the sacrament of faith, and after faith and baptism then to teach them what things they ought to…

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  • Rabanus MaurusCatena Aurea on Matthew

    “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” [James 2:26]

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  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew

    And because what He had laid upon them was great, therefore to exalt their spirits He adds, “And, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” As much as to say, Tell Me not of the difficulty of these…

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  • Rabanus MaurusCatena Aurea on Matthew

    Hence we understand that to the end of the world shall not be wanting those who shall be worthy of the Divine indwelling.

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  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew

    He brings before them the end of the world, that He may the more draw them on, and that they may not look merely to present inconveniences, but to the infinite goods to come. As much as to say, The grievous things…

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    It is made a question how He says here, “I am with you,” when we read elsewhere that He said, “I go unto him that sent me.” [Jon 16:5] What is said of His human nature is distinct from what is said of His divine…

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    He then who promises that He will be with His disciples to the end of the world, shews both that they shall live for ever, and that He will never depart from those that believe.

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  • Leo the GreatCatena Aurea on Matthew

    For by ascending into heaven He does not desert His adopted; but from above strengthens to endurance, those whom He invites upwards to glory. Of which glory may Christ make us partakers, Who is the King of glory,…

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Leo the Great

  • “…from those things, the carrying out of which He has committed to His ministers, saying: “Lo, I am with you all the days even to the completion of the age:” so that whatever is accomplished through our service in due order and with satisfactory results we doubt not to have been vouchsafed through the Holy Spirit.” — editor's note: S. Matt. xxviii. 20.

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  • “On it the apostles take from the Lord’s hands the trumpet of the gospel which is to be preached to all nations, and receive the sacrament of regeneration which they are to bear to the whole world.” — editor's note: Sacramentum regenerationis: the reference in the first part of the sentence seems to be S. Mark xvi. 15, and here in the latter part to S. Matt. xxviii. 19,…

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  • “…the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things that I have enjoined you.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. xxviii. 19, 20.

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  • “…Who, to confirm the preachers of the Gospel and the ministers of the mysteries, says, “Lo, I am with you all the days even to the consummation of the age.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. xxviii. 20.

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  • “I am with you all the days till the end of the age.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. xxviii. 20.

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  • “I am with you all the days, even till the end of the age.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. xxviii. 20.

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Theodoret of Cyrus

Hilary of Poitiers

Gregory of Nazianzus

Aphrahat

Jerome

Cross-references · 75

  • Cited together in Catechism §75 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Catechism §1223 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Catechism §2.

  • Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 1:24–25 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Catechism §2743.

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 13:33–35 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Against Celsus II.9 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 9:1–7 (5) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 12:1–11 (7) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 12:1–11 (7) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 12:1–11 (7) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 12:1–11 (7) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 12:1–11 (7) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 12:1–11 (7) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 12:1–11 (7) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 12:1–11 (7) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 13:33–35 (2) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 13:33–35 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 64.

  • Cited together in Catechism §788.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 161.

  • Cited together in Catechism §767.

  • Cited together in Catechism §788 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Catechism §1120.

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 28:16–20 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 28:16–20 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Catechism §788.

  • Cited together in Catechism §857.

  • Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 58.

  • Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 58 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Against Celsus II.9.

  • Cited together in Catechism §857.

  • Cited together in Catechism §857.

  • Cited together in Catechism §857.

  • Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 1:24–25 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Catechism §857.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 161.

  • Cited together in Catechism §857.

  • Cited together in Catechism §857.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 161.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 103.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 103.

  • Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 28:16–20 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Epistles Letter 24.

  • Cited together in Epistles Letter 24.

  • Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.13.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 161.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 130.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 93.

  • Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 64.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 130.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 93.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 103.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 161.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 103.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 103.

  • Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 1:24–25 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Against Celsus V.12.

  • Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 1:24–25 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 1:24–25 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Catechism §1223.

  • Cited together in Catechism §849.

  • Cited together in Catechism §1444.

  • Cited together in Catechism §1444.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 93 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 161.

  • Cited together in Origen on Matthew 24:23–28 (4) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Origen on Matthew 24:23–28 (4) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Origen on Matthew 24:23–28 (4) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Origen on Matthew 25:14–30 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:6–13 (5) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:6–13 (5) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:6–13 (5) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:6–13 (5) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Bede on Matthew 28:16–20 (Catena Aurea).

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