All Authority Has Been Given to Me

Primary Texts: Matthew 28; Mark 16:1–8; Luke 24; John 20–21; Acts 1:1–11

Main Sayings: “Peace be with you.” “Touch me, and see.” “Repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name.” “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” “I am with you always.”

Jesus has died.

His body has been buried.

The tomb has been sealed by death, guarded by human power, and mourned by those who loved Him.

Then the first day of the week comes.

The women go to the tomb expecting a corpse.

They do not go looking for a resurrection.

They go with spices for the dead.

But the stone is rolled away.

The body is not there.

And the message comes:

“He is not here, for he has risen, as he said.”

Not a Symbol, Not a Memory

The resurrection in the Gospels is not presented as a metaphor.

It is not merely the survival of Jesus’ teachings.

It is not the disciples deciding to keep His memory alive.

The claim is physical, historical, and personal.

The same Jesus who was crucified is now alive.

When the disciples are frightened, Jesus says:

“Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

He shows His hands and feet. He eats in front of them.

This confronts every thin spirituality that wants hope without resurrection, comfort without conquest, or religious meaning without a living Lord.

Jesus does not return as an idea.

He stands among them alive.

Peace from the Wounded One

When Jesus appears to His disciples, His first words are not vengeance.

He says:

“Peace be with you.”

These are the men who fled.

Peter denied Him.

They hid behind locked doors.

Yet the risen Jesus comes with peace.

That peace is not sentimental.

It comes through wounds.

He shows them His hands and His side.

The peace Jesus gives is not denial of sin, suffering, betrayal, or death. It is peace on the other side of the cross.

The world offers peace by distraction, control, achievement, denial, or self-invention.

Jesus gives peace as the crucified and risen Lord.

Scripture Opened

On the road to Emmaus, Jesus rebukes His disciples for being slow to believe.

Then He explains from Moses and the Prophets that the Christ had to suffer and enter His glory.

Later, He tells the gathered disciples:

“Everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

Jesus does not present His resurrection as an isolated miracle.

He presents it as fulfillment.

The story of Scripture was moving toward Him.

The cross was not failure.

The tomb was not the end.

The resurrection is God’s vindication of the Son.

Forgiveness in His Name

Then Jesus gives the message that must go to the nations:

“Repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations.”

This is the risen Jesus’ summary of the mission.

Repentance.

Forgiveness.

In His name.

To all nations.

That cuts through every smaller confidence.

No nation owns Him.

No tribe controls Him.

No ritual system replaces Him.

No moral effort outruns the need for forgiveness.

No private spirituality can bypass His name.

The message is global because the risen Jesus is Lord of all.

But it is not vague.

It has a name.

His name.

All Authority

In Galilee, the risen Jesus says:

“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

Not some authority.

Not symbolic authority.

Not influence only over religious people.

All authority.

In heaven and on earth.

This is the climax of the movement.

The child who spoke of His Father’s house now claims authority over heaven and earth.

The Son baptized in the Jordan, tested in the wilderness, rejected by leaders, crucified by human power, and raised from the dead now sends His disciples to make disciples of all nations.

Jesus is not asking to be added to an already complete life.

He is Lord.

With You Always

Then He promises:

“I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

This is not the language of a dead teacher whose influence continues.

This is the presence of the living Christ.

He sends His people, but He does not abandon them.

He commands mission, but He also gives presence.

Why This Matters

Movement 12 brings the first chronological journey to its peak.

Jesus is risen bodily.

He gives peace.

He opens Scripture.

He sends repentance and forgiveness in His name.

He claims all authority.

He promises His presence to the end.

This leaves no honest room for a merely inspirational Jesus.

The risen Jesus does not say, “Remember my ideas.”

He says all authority belongs to Him.

The question is no longer only, “Who did Jesus claim to be?”

The question is whether we will repent, believe, and follow the living Lord.

If you are ready to respond to this Jesus, begin here: https://logosmap.org/en/begin-here.