The Great Commission

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Matthew 28:19

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: (KJV)

What is the Scripture evidence of what the disciples did and taught

When we look at how the disciples were baptizing is no such teaching of the Trinitarian formula that reads people were baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost in the whole Bible.

When we look at the scripture evidence we see that the disciples and the followers of the Messiah were only baptizing only in the Name of Jesus. So If Jesus told his disciples to baptize in the Father, Son, Holy Spirit then why do we see the disciples baptizing in the “Name of Jesus Christ”

Acts 2:38

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 8:12

But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 8:16

For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 10:48

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

Acts 19:5

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Romans 6:3

Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Galatians 3:27

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Hebrew Matthew Shem Tob

Was a Hebrew text of the Gospel of Matthew. As we know from the early Church Fathers that Matthew originally wrote his Gospel in the Hebrew language. This Matthew is close to the Greek, but does differ in some things. Is this Matthew a copy from a copy of the original, maybe it does have a lot of Hebrew elements in it like word-play. The Hebrew language loves word-play and the Old Testament is full of word-play, we don’t see it because we are reading a translation and word-play is translated out.

28:18-20

18 Jesus drew near to them and said to them: To me has been given all power in heaven and earth.

19 Go

20 and (teach) them to carry out all the things which I have commanded you forever.

Of all the different “Church Fathers” that is said to Matthew 28:19 the oldest manuscripts date to the 4th century and those are only fragments themselves. So we don’t have any early manuscript that quotes Matthew 28:19.

Hibbert Journal, F. C. Conybeare, 1902 Bound Edit., p. 108

All ancient manuscripts, which contain the original words of Jesus found in Matthew 28:19, were either lost or destroyed. We have no complete manuscript older than the year 400

Hibbert Journal, Conybeare, 1902, p. 104

The noted Greek scholar Eusebius of Caesarea (A.D. 270-340), who lived in the greatest Christian library of his time, had access to much older MSS than currently exist, and also exegesis of Origen, of Clement, of Alexandria, of Pantaenus and of many other ancient works . Eusebius quoted from Matthew 28:19 many times in his writings, in which he clearly revealed that Jesus commissioned the apostles to use a singular name “His Name.” The following is an actual quotation taken from the ancient manuscripts of the words of Jesus in Matthew 28:19:

Eusebius: Ecclesiastical Church History

Book 3, Chapter 5

But the rest of the apostles, who had been incessantly plotted against with a view to their destruction, and had been driven out of the land of Judea, went unto all nations to preach the Gospel, relying upon the power of Christ, who had said to them, “Go ye and make disciples of all the nations in my name.”