Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.

People's New Testament

28:10 Be not afraid. They had met the Lord while hastening to tell the story of his resurrection. It is when we are in the path of duty that we will enjoy his presence and his blessing.

Go tell my brethren. This is the first time he had called the disciples his brethren.

Wesley's Notes

28:10 Go tell my brethren - I still own them as such, though they so lately disowned and forsook me.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid-What dear associations would these familiar words-now uttered in a higher style, but by the same Lips-bring rushing back to their recollection!

go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me-The brethren here meant must have been His brethren after the flesh (compare Mt 13:55); for His brethren in the higher sense (see on [1391]Joh 20:17) had several meetings with Him at Jerusalem before He went to Galilee, which they would have missed if they had been the persons ordered to Galilee to meet Him.

The Guards Bribed (Mt 28:11-15).

The whole of this important portion is peculiar to Matthew.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

28:9,10 God's gracious visits usually meet us in the way of duty; and to those who use what they have for others' benefit, more shall be given. This interview with Christ was unexpected; but Christ was nigh them, and still is nigh us in the word. The salutation speaks the good-will of Christ to man, even since he entered upon his state of exaltation. It is the will of Christ that his people should be a cheerful, joyful people, and his resurrection furnishes abundant matter for joy. Be not afraid. Christ rose from the dead, to silence his people's fears, and there is enough in that to silence them. The disciples had just before shamefully deserted him in his sufferings; but, to show that he could forgive, and to teach us to do so, he calls them brethren. Notwithstanding his majesty and purity, and our meanness and unworthiness, he still condescends to call believers his brethren.