But after I am risen again
This he says for their comfort, that though he, their shepherd,
should be apprehended, condemned, and crucified, should be
smitten with death, and be laid in the grave, yet he should rise
again; and though they should be scattered abroad, yet should be
gathered together again by him, their good shepherd; who would
after his resurrection, appear to them, be at the head of them,
and go before them, as a shepherd goes before his sheep: for it
follows,
I will go before you into Galilee;
the native place of most, if not all of them. This the women that
came to the sepulchre after Christ's resurrection, were bid, both
by the angel, and Christ himself, to remind the disciples of, and
ordered them to go into Galilee, where they might expect to see
him: accordingly they did go thither, and saw and worshipped him;
see ( Matthew
28:7 Matthew
28:10 Matthew
28:16 Matthew
28:17 ) .