PASSAGE · BSB

Matthew 28

12 positions in the corpus lean on this chapter. Cited verses are marked.

1After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.

2Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.

3His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

4The guards trembled in fear of him and became like dead men.

5But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

6He is not here; He has risen, just as He said! Come, see the place where He lay.

7Then go quickly and tell His disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him.’ See, I have told you.”

8So they hurried away from the tomb in fear and great joy, and ran to tell His disciples.

9Suddenly Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” They came to Him, grasped His feet, and worshiped Him.

10“Do not be afraid,” said Jesus. “Go and tell My brothers to go to Galilee. There they will see Me.”

11While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests all that had happened.

12And after the chief priests had met with the elders and formed a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money

13and instructed them: “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep.’

14If this report reaches the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”

15So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.

16Meanwhile, the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain Jesus had designated.

17When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted.

18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Who leans on it

Basil the Great on the trinityPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°He supplies the Cappadocian grammar the West later took as standard — one ousia, three hypostases, the distinction being that of the general to the particular, as animal is to a particular man. He blocks both errors in o…Voddie Baucham on baptismSTANDARD ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°Believer's baptism by immersion.Calvin on the trinityPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°One simple essence in three subsistences. Calvin defines a person as "a subsistence in the Divine essence,—a subsistence which, while related to the other two, is distinguished from them by incommunicable properties" (In…Josh Howerton on baptismPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Believer's baptism. A dedicated episode addresses whether baptism saves, whether to be re-baptized, and infant baptism. Captured from show notes rather than transcript, so the reasoning is thinner than other entries here…Second London Baptist Confession on the trinityPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Chapter 2.3 states three subsistences in one divine essence, of one substance, power and eternity, each having the whole essence undivided, distinguished only by relative properties — with the Son eternally begotten and …Luther on baptismPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Infants are baptized, and baptism genuinely does something: it is 'a laver of regeneration,' it works forgiveness, and its power, work, profit and end 'is this, namely, to save.' Luther refuses to make the child's faith …John MacArthur on the trinityPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°One essence, three coequal and consubstantial persons, each uncreated and distinct and each equally deserving worship. States eternal generation of the Son and, notably, double procession of the Spirit from both Father a…Gavin Ortlund on baptismSTANDARD ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°Believer's baptism.John Owen on the trinityPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°One essence, three persons, co-equal and co-eternal, with person defined as a distinct manner of subsistence rather than a separate being. Owen assigns the personal properties in the classical way — the Father of himself…Justin Peters on the trinityPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°One God in three co-eternal, co-equal Persons of one essence, with the Son consubstantial with the Father. The Spirit gets the longest of the section's four paragraphs, and an unusual share of it argues for His personhoo…Westminster Confession on the trinityPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°WCF 2.3 states the Nicene settlement in a single sentence and then adds the Western eternal-relations clause: the Father of none, the Son eternally begotten, the Spirit eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son. T…Zwingli on baptismPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Infants are baptized because they belong to the covenant people, exactly as Hebrew infants were circumcised — and baptism does nothing to them. Zwingli fought the Zurich Anabaptists on the first half and the whole sacram…