Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 28:7

"And go quickly, and tell his disciples, He is risen from the dead; and lo, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you." — Matthew 28:7 (ASV)

And Behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him: lo, I have told you.

That is a very beautiful touch of condescension on the Saviour's part—that he would go before his disciples into Galilee.

Why, Galilee was the very opposite of a classic region; it was a district that was much despised. The rough farmhands, the uncouth commoners, the illiterate people of no account, lived in "Galilee of the Gentiles."

"Yet," says Christ, "I will meet you there." It was the King's own rendezvous—not in the courts of earthly monarchs, nor in the palaces of the priests, but away down in Galilee.

What cares he for the grandeur of men, and their empty pomp and boasted wisdom? He goes to places that are despised, that he may lift them up by the glory of his light: Behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him: lo, I have told you.

And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead;

Such good news ought to be spread quickly. Go and tell his disciples, they are trembling, they have fled, – that he is risen from the dead.

And, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.

Brothers, this is good news for us tonight, though all may not, perhaps, feel the power of it. He is risen. We have no dead Christ; we serve a living Saviour. He is risen, and therefore he can come to us tonight in the power of his resurrection-life, and he can make us glad.

Behold, he goeth before you into Galilee. There is a great deal about Galilee in Matthew's Gospel; it is the Gospel of the Kingdom, and yet it often talks about Galilee, that borderland which touches Gentiles, as well as the chosen seed of Abraham.

There is the place where Jesus will meet his people, in the borderland between Jew and Gentile; there the risen Christ will hold the first general assembly of his Church.