Matthew 28:18
New International Version
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

New Living Translation
Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

English Standard Version
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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

Berean Literal Bible
And having come to them, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to Me.

King James Bible
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

New King James Version
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

New American Standard Bible
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

NASB 1995
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

NASB 1977
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

Amplified Bible
Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

Christian Standard Bible
Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

American Standard Version
And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Yeshua spoke with them and he said to them, “All authority has been given to me in Heaven and in the earth; in the manner in which my Father has sent me, I am sending you.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus came to them and said: I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.

English Revised Version
And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When Jesus came near, he spoke to them. He said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Good News Translation
Jesus drew near and said to them, "I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

International Standard Version
Then Jesus approached them and told them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Literal Standard Version
And having come near, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “All authority in Heaven and on earth was given to Me;

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

New American Bible
Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

NET Bible
Then Jesus came up and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

New Revised Standard Version
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

New Heart English Bible
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jesus came, and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to me in heaven and upon earth.

Weymouth New Testament
Jesus however came near and said to them, "All power in Heaven and over the earth has been given to me.

World English Bible
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Young's Literal Translation
And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

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Context
The Great Commission
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,…

Cross References
Proverbs 8:15
By me kings reign, and rulers enact just laws;

Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Daniel 7:13
In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence.

Matthew 11:27
All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

Matthew 26:64
"You have said it yourself," Jesus answered. "But I say to all of you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Luke 1:33
and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!"

John 3:31
The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is above all.


Treasury of Scripture

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.

All.

Matthew 11:27
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

Matthew 16:28
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

Psalm 2:6-9
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion…

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16. Christ appears to his disciples,
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(18) All power is given unto me.--Literally, all authority was given, the tense used being that in which men speak of something that occurred at a given point of time. We may possibly connect it with St. Paul's use of the same tense in the Greek of Philippians 2:8. The exaltation came, the authority was given, as at the moment of the Resurrection, and as the crown of His obedience unto death.

Verse 18. - Jesus came. Some medieval exegetes have deemed that this verse refers to the time of the ascension; but there is no valid reason for dissociating this portion from the rest of the account. If we do this, we lose the great reason for the oft-enjoined meeting on the Galilaean mountain, which seems to have been expressly and with much care arranged to notify at large the fact of Christ's Resurrection and of his supreme authority, and to convey the Lord's commission to the apostles in the presence of many witnesses. We may suppose that Jesus, who had been standing apart, now drew near to the company, so that all, especially the doubting, might see him closely and hear his familiar voice. Spake unto them (e)lalhsen au)toi = , talked unto them). Doubtless he said much more than is here recorded, resolving doubts, confirming faith, infusing comfort. "Thus it is even now; we worship him, and then he draws near, and, by his nearer approaches and secret manifestation of himself to our hearts, we are confirmed in the faith, and see in him God and man" (I. Williams). All power (ἐξιυσία) is given (ἐδόθη, was given) unto me in heaven and in earth. Jesus here asserts that he, as Son of man, has received from the Father supreme authority in heaven and earth, over the whole kingdom of God in its fullest extent. This is net given to him as Son o! God; for, as God, naught can be added to him or taken from him; it is a power which he has merited by his incarnation, death, and Passion (Philippians 2:8-10), which was foretold in the Old Testament, by psalmist (Psalm 2:8; Psalm 8:5-8) and prophet (Daniel 7:13, 14), and with which he was indued on the day that he rose victorious from the grave. So the verb "was given" is in the past tense, because it refers to the dotation arranged in God's eternal purpose, and to the actual investiture at the Resurrection. The power is exercised in his mediatorial kingdom, and will continue to be exercised till he hath put all enemies under his feet, and destroyed death itself (1 Corinthians 15:24-27); but his absolute kingdom is everlasting; as God and Man he reigns forever and ever. This mediatorial authority extends not only over men, so that he governs and protects the Church, disposes bureau events, controls hearts and opinions; but the forces of heaven also are at his command, the Holy Spirit is bestowed by him, the angels are in his employ as ministering to the members of his body.

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Greek
Then
Καὶ (Kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

came to
προσελθὼν (proselthōn)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4334: From pros and erchomai; to approach, i.e. come near, visit, or worship, assent to.

them
αὐτοῖς (autois)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

[and] said,
ἐλάλησεν (elalēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.

“All
πᾶσα (pasa)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

authority
ἐξουσία (exousia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1849: From exesti; privilege, i.e. force, capacity, competency, freedom, or mastery, delegated influence.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

heaven
οὐρανῷ (ouranō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

on
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

earth
γῆς (gēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 1093: Contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe.

has been given
Ἐδόθη (Edothē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1325: To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give.

to Me.
μοι (moi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.


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