Jesus Doesn't Save You, He #Commissions You to #SaveYourself ... Look at #TheGreatCommission (in All 4 Gospels) | @theBibleHub) | #Commission #Commissioner

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The word "|Commission|" is built on "With, Together (Com-) + to Release, Send, Let go, Throw (Mission)" (Document |Delegating Authority, anything Entrusted to anyone to Perform). #Commissioner
"The Great Commission" is a heading (in many Bible-translations) on the Scripture-passage where Jesus–by most interpretations of all those translations–'gives His disciples the authority of "apostles who make disciples of their own (who will become apostles with their own disciple who will become apostles who ... etc.)"'


I'll review "the 4 Gospels' versions of The Commission" below, but first I'll review 'the Commission I remember': Jesus–just after His Crucifixion & Resurrection, just before His Ascension–told His disciples, 'You may go, continuing the discipline I taught you–Preaching, Teaching & Baptizing followers–and it'll be like I'm right there with you!"
And I'll look into a few of those words (linking my 'exploration' above ... importantly, with notes on 'why my head-canon is a little different than the words in most Bibles' pages); but first, a review of "the Gospels' versions of the Commission" (with a lot of help from BibleHub):

    Matthew: 
    • And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them -- to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age.'
    Mark
    • Afterwards, as they are reclining (at meat), he was manifested to the eleven, and did reproach their unbelief and stiffness of heart, because they believed not those having seen him being raised; and he said to them, 'Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation; he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned. 'And signs shall accompany those believing these things; in my name demons they shall cast out; with new tongues they shall speak; serpents they shall take up; and if any deadly thing they may drink, it shall not hurt them; on the ailing they shall lay hands, and they shall be well.'
        • you can see where the Evangelists get their whole obsession with 'Healing' (they think this passage licenses them to fool followers into believing their health comes from 'outside themselves somewhere')
    Luke:
    • BibleHub doesn't directly tie The Commission to any text in Luke, but they might help me find Luke's text of 'Jesus's entrusting the mission to His disciples':
      • Actually, The Gospel of Luke gives two Commissions (kinda): one on the road to Emmaus, and one in 'The Upper Room' (or wherever all the disciples were meeting).

        In both of them He affirms "authority" by explaining the Old Testament prophecies; but the two witnesses on The Road to Emmaus are left with 'just the feeling that they'd been In His Presence,' while the disciples were given 'instructions':
        "and he said to them -- 'Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day, and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem: and ye -- ye are witnesses of these things.
        "'And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'"
    John:
    • BibleHub doesn't directly tie The Commission to any text in John either, but they might help me find John's text of 'Jesus's entrusting the mission to His disciples':
      • Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, 'Peace to you;' and this having said, he shewed them his hands and side; the disciples, therefore, rejoiced, having seen the Lord. Jesus, therefore, said to them again, 'Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;' and this having said, he breathed on them, and saith to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit; if of any ye may loose the sins, they are loosed to them; if of any ye may retain, they have been retained.'
    but later–in Acts–the writer remembers something else Jesus said:
    • and he said unto them, 'It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority; but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'






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