But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
Parallel translations
- WEB But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.”
- BSB But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”
- NKJV But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.”
- NASB But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”
- NLT But after I have been raised from the dead, I will go ahead of you to Galilee and meet you there.”
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Quick answer
Jesus promises that after His resurrection He will go ahead of them into Galilee. Amid predictions of failure, He gives a word of hope.
Overview
Before they even fall away, Jesus assures the disciples of restoration after He is raised. The promise of meeting in Galilee, fulfilled in Matthew 28, shows His grace toward those who will desert Him. The resurrection stands as the certain horizon beyond their failure and His suffering.
Cross-references & the web
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- Matt 28:10Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
- Matt 28:16Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
- Luke 18:33–34And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.
- Matt 20:19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
- Mark 16:7But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
- Matt 16:21From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
- Mark 14:28But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
- Matt 27:63–64Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
- John 21:1–14After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself.
- Matt 28:6–7He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
- Mark 9:9–10And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.
- 1 Cor 15:6After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
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