At this very moment they are assembled with shut doors, for fear of the Jews, who are triumphing over Him as dead. He and they stand also in the same relation to the world. He declares to them, and they in His name are to declare to the world, the fulness of the Father’s love, and the peace between man and God, witnessed to in His life and death. He stands in the same relation to the Father as that in which they stand to Him. He is the great Apostle ( Hebrews 3:1) they are ambassadors for Christ, to whom He commits the ministry of reconciliation ( 2Corinthians 5:18 et seq.). As spoken here to the disciples ‘they are the identification of them with Himself in His mediatorial work. Note on John 17:18, where the words occur in prayer to the Father. He is now about to withdraw the evidence of His presence from them, and does so with the customary “ Shalōm ” but with this He reminds them of the apostleship to which He has called them, gives them an earnest of the Presence which will never leave them, but always qualify them for it ( John 20:22), and places before them the greatness of the work to which He sends them ( John 20:23).Īs my (better, the) Father hath sent me, even so send I you.-Comp. John 14:27.) Other words had intervened, as we know from St. ![]() It is, however, more natural to understand the words in John 20:19 as those of greeting, and these as words of farewell. ![]() Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you.-These words may be here a solemn repetition of the greeting in John 20:19, by which our Lord’s own message of peace is immediately connected with that which the Apostles were to deliver to the world.
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