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Matthew 28

Matt. 28:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Teaching
didasko (Greek #1321)
to teach (in the same broad application)
KJV usage: teach.
Pronounce: did-as'-ko
Origin: a prolonged (causative) form of a primary verb δάω (to learn)
b them
autos (Greek #846)
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
KJV usage: her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
Pronounce: ow-tos'
Origin: from the particle αὖ (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward)
to observe
tereo (Greek #5083)
to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from 5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from 2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried)
KJV usage: hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.
Pronounce: tay-reh'-o
Origin: from τερός (a watch; perhaps akin to 2334)
all things
pas (Greek #3956)
apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole
KJV usage: all (manner of, means), alway(-s), any (one), X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no(-thing), X thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.
Pronounce: pas
Origin: including all the forms of declension
whatsoever
hosos (Greek #3745)
as (much, great, long, etc.) as
KJV usage: all (that), as (long, many, much) (as), how great (many, much), (in-)asmuch as, so many as, that (ever), the more, those things, what (great, -soever), wheresoever, wherewithsoever, which, X while, who(-soever).
Pronounce: hos'-os
Origin: by reduplication from 3739
I have commanded
entellomai (Greek #1781)
to enjoin
KJV usage: (give) charge, (give) command(-ments), injoin.
Pronounce: en-tel'-lom-ahee
Origin: from 1722 and the base of 5056
you
humin (Greek #5213)
to (with or by) you
KJV usage: ye, you, your(-selves).
Pronounce: hoo-min'
Origin: irregular dative case of 5210
: and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
, lo
idou (Greek #2400)
second person singular imperative middle voice of 1492; used as imperative lo!; --behold, lo, see.
Pronounce: id-oo'
, I
ego (Greek #1473)
a primary pronoun of the first person I (only expressed when emphatic)
KJV usage: I, me. For the other cases and the plural see 1691, 1698, 1700, 2248, 2249, 2254, 2257, etc.
Pronounce: eg-o'
c am
eimi (Greek #1510)
a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist (used only when emphatic)
KJV usage: am, have been, X it is I, was. See also 1488, 1498, 1511, 1527, 2258, 2071, 2070, 2075, 2076, 2771, 2468, 5600.
Pronounce: i-mee'
Origin: the first person singular present indicative
with
meta (Greek #3326)
properly, denoting accompaniment; "amid" (local or causal); modified variously according to the case (genitive association, or accusative succession) with which it is joined; occupying an intermediate position between 575 or 1537 and 1519 or 4314; less intimate than 1722 and less close than 4862)
KJV usage: after(-ward), X that he again, against, among, X and, + follow, hence, hereafter, in, of, (up-)on, + our, X and setting, since, (un-)to, + together, when, with (+ -out). Often used in composition, in substantially the same relations of participation or proximity, and transfer or sequence.
Pronounce: met-ah'
Origin: a primary preposition (often used adverbially)
you
humon (Greek #5216)
of (from or concerning) you
KJV usage: ye, you, your (own, -selves).
Pronounce: hoo-mone'
Origin: genitive case of 5210
alway
pas (Greek #3956)
apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole
KJV usage: all (manner of, means), alway(-s), any (one), X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no(-thing), X thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.
Pronounce: pas
Origin: including all the forms of declension
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ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
hemera (Greek #2250)
day, i.e. (literally) the time space between dawn and dark, or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the Jews as inclusive of the parts of both extremes); figuratively, a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context)
KJV usage: age, + alway, (mid-)day (by day, (-ly)), + for ever, judgment, (day) time, while, years.
Pronounce: hay-mer'-ah
Origin: feminine (with 5610 implied) of a derivative of ἧμαι (to sit; akin to the base of 1476) meaning tame, i.e. gentle
even unto
heos (Greek #2193)
a conjunction, preposition and adverb of continuance, until (of time and place)
KJV usage: even (until, unto), (as) far (as), how long, (un-)til(-l), (hither-, un-, up) to, while(-s).
Pronounce: heh'-oce
Origin: of uncertain affinity
the end
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
sunteleia (Greek #4930)
entire completion, i.e. consummation (of a dispensation)
KJV usage: end.
Pronounce: soon-tel'-i-ah
Origin: from 4931
of the world
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
aion (Greek #165)
properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity (also past); by implication, the world; specially (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future)
KJV usage: age, course, eternal, (for) ever(-more), (n-)ever, (beginning of the , while the) world (began, without end). Compare 5550.
Pronounce: ahee-ohn'
Origin: from the same as 104
. Amen
amen (Greek #281)
properly, firm, i.e. (figuratively) trustworthy; adverbially, surely (often as interjection, so be it)
KJV usage: amen, verily.
Pronounce: am-ane'
Origin: of Hebrew origin (0543)
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Matt. 7:24‑27• 24Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;
25and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.
26And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;
27and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.
(Matt. 7:24‑27)
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Deut. 5:32• 32Take heed then to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you: turn not aside to the right hand or to the left. (Deut. 5:32)
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Deut. 12:32• 32Everything that I command you, ye shall take heed to do it; thou shalt not add thereto, nor take from it. (Deut. 12:32)
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Acts 2:42• 42And they persevered in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles, in breaking of bread and prayers. (Acts 2:42)
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Acts 20:20‑21,27• 20how I held back nothing of what is profitable, so as not to announce it to you, and to teach you publicly and in every house,
21testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.
27for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the counsel of God.
(Acts 20:20‑21,27)
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1 Cor. 11:2,23• 2Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.
23For *I* received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,
(1 Cor. 11:2,23)
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1 Cor. 14:37• 37If any one thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognise the things that I write to you, that it is the Lord's commandment. (1 Cor. 14:37)
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Eph. 4:11‑17,20‑32• 11and *he* has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,
12for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to the work of the ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;
13until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;
14in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;
15but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:
16from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to the working in its measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.
17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,
20But *ye* have not thus learnt the Christ,
21if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as the truth is in Jesus;
22namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;
23and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24and your having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.
25Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.
26Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,
27neither give room for the devil.
28Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with his hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.
29Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if there be any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear it.
30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for the day of redemption.
31Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;
32and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.
(Eph. 4:11‑17,20‑32)
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Col. 1:28• 28whom *we* announce, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every man perfect in Christ. (Col. 1:28)
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1 Thess. 4:1‑2• 1For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.
2For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
(1 Thess. 4:1‑2)
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2 Thess. 3:6‑12• 6Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.
7For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because we have not walked disorderly among you;
8nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:
9not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.
10For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.
11For we hear that there are some walking among you disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.
12Now such we enjoin and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.
(2 Thess. 3:6‑12)
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1 Tim. 6:1‑4• 1Let as many bondmen as are under yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed.
2And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved, who profit by the good and ready service rendered. These things teach and exhort.
3If any one teach differently, and do not accede to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to piety,
4he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions,
(1 Tim. 6:1‑4)
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Titus 2:1‑10• 1But do *thou* speak the things that become sound teaching;
2that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
3that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;
4that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children,
5discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.
6The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet:
7in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works; in teaching uncorruptedness, gravity,
8a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us:
9bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying;
10not robbing their masters, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the teaching which is of our Saviour God in all things.
(Titus 2:1‑10)
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1 Peter 2:10‑19• 10who once were not a people, but now God's people; who were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy.
11Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.
13Be in subjection therefore to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to the king as supreme,
14or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that do well.
15Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men;
16as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.
17Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king.
18Servants, be subject with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the ill-tempered.
19For this is acceptable, if one, for conscience sake towards God, endure griefs, suffering unjustly.
(1 Peter 2:10‑19)
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2 Peter 1:5‑11• 5But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,
6in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,
7in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:
8for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
9for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.
10Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;
11for thus shall the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ be richly furnished unto you.
(2 Peter 1:5‑11)
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2 Peter 3:2• 2to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by your apostles; (2 Peter 3:2)
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1 John 2:3‑4• 3And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4He that says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
(1 John 2:3‑4)
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1 John 3:19‑24• 19And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him--
20that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards God,
22and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.
23And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he has given us commandment.
24And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given to us.
(1 John 3:19‑24)
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Rev. 22:14• 14Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they should go in by the gates into the city. (Rev. 22:14)
I am.
Matt. 1:23• 23Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, 'God with us.' (Matt. 1:23)
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Matt. 18:20• 20For where two or three are gathered together unto my name, there am I in the midst of them. (Matt. 18:20)
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Gen. 39:2‑3,21• 2And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
3And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
21And Jehovah was with Joseph, and extended mercy to him, and gave him favour in the eyes of the chief of the tower-house.
(Gen. 39:2‑3,21)
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Ex. 3:12• 12And he said, For I will be with thee; and this shall be the sign to thee that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. (Ex. 3:12)
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Josh. 1:5• 5None shall be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee; I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee. (Josh. 1:5)
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Psa. 46:7,11• 7Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.
11Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.
(Psa. 46:7,11)
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Isa. 8:8‑10• 8and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!
9Rage, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth: Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!
10Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand: for *God is with us.
(Isa. 8:8‑10)
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Isa. 41:10• 10--Fear not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. (Isa. 41:10)
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Mark 16:20• 20And they, going forth, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs following upon it. (Mark 16:20)
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John 14:18‑23• 18I will not leave you orphans, I am coming to you.
19Yet a little and the world sees me no longer; but ye see me; because I live ye also shall live.
20In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; but he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.
22Judas, not the Iscariote, says to him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us and not to the world?
23Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.
(John 14:18‑23)
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Acts 18:9‑10• 9And the Lord said by vision in the night to Paul, Fear not, but speak and be not silent;
10because *I* am with thee, and no one shall set upon thee to injure thee; because I have much people in this city.
(Acts 18:9‑10)
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2 Tim. 4:17• 17But the Lord stood with me, and gave me power, that through me the proclamation might be fully made, and all those of the nations should hear; and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth. (2 Tim. 4:17)
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Rev. 22:21• 21The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. (Rev. 22:21)
unto.
Amen.
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON MATTHEW'S GOSPEL.Matthew being one of the twelve apostles, and early called to the apostleship, and from the time of his call a constant attendant on our Saviour, was perfectly well qualified to write fully the history of his life.
He relates what he saw and heard.
"He is eminently distinguished for the distinctness and particularity with which he has related many of our Lord's discourses and moral instructions.
Of these his sermon on the mount, his charge to the apostles, his illustrations of the nature of his kingdom, and his prophecy on mount Olivet, are examples.
He has also wonderfully united simplicity and energy in relating the replies of his Master to the cavils of his adversaries."
"There is not," as Dr. A. Clarke justly remarks, "one truth or doctrine, in the whole oracles of God, which is not taught in this Evangelist.
The outlines of the whole spiritual system are here correctly laid down:
even Paul himself has added nothing:
he has amplified and illustrated the truths contained in this Gospel;--under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, neither he, nor any of the other apostles, have brought to light one truth, the prototype of which has not been found in the words and acts of our blessed Lord as related by Matthew."
 Now it appears to me that with such a word as this the ascension scene would be incongruous. He had said, "Lo, I am with you alway"; and there the curtain drops — the unbroken blessedness of this promise rings on the heart! Thus the keeping out of view His departure seems to me to crown the beauty of the parting promise, and of the whole Gospel. (Remarks on Matthew 28 by W. Kelly)
 this was and is enough for faith. The Lord grant that we may confide our souls, both for this age and forever, to that Word which shall stand when heaven and earth pass away! (Remarks on Matthew 28 by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined you. And behold, *I* am with you all the days, until the completion of the age.

W. Kelly Translation

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ateaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined you. And behold, I am with you all the days, until the completion of the age.

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See note to {vi 23522}{/vi}. Also, the addition of "Amen" by some was probably owing to ecclesiastical influence, like the doxology at the end of the prayer for the disciples (6:13).

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)