Context: Mat 26:30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Mat 26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night; for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
Mat 26:32 But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”
Mat 26:33 Peter declared to him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.”
Mat 26:34 Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you, this very night, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.”
Mat 26:35 Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And so said all the disciples.
RESOURCES
What are the commands of Jesus Christ which we need to obey? In disciple-making, Jesus commanded the following in Matthew 28:20: “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you…” What are the commands that we are to follow and teach others as identified by Jesus’ use of the imperative mood in the Greek?
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