Matthew 28:19

On the basis of His authority, Jesus commands the disciples to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the triune name. This is the church's Great Commission.

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• Mark 16:15–16He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
• Acts 2:38–39Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
• Luke 24:47–48and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• Acts 19:3–5He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
• Isa 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
• Gal 3:27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
• Acts 13:46–47Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
• Acts 10:47–48“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”
• Rom 6:3–4Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
• Rom 10:18But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
• Matt 3:16–17Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
• Eph 2:18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
• Acts 8:12–16But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
• Acts 2:41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
• Acts 28:28“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
• 1 Pet 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you — not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• Acts 8:36–38As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
• Isa 66:18–19“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.
• Num 6:24–27‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
• Isa 52:10Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
• Gen 1:26God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
• Isa 48:16“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit.
• Ps 98:2–3Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
• 1 Cor 15:29Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?
• Acts 14:21When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
• Acts 9:18Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
• Isa 42:1–4“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights — I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
• Rev 1:4–6John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;
• Ps 22:27–28All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
• Acts 16:15–33When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.
• 1 Cor 12:4–6Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
• 1 Cor 1:13–16Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
• 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
• 1 Jn 5:7For there are three who testify:
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• Matt 13:52He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

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