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In Christianity, the Great Commission is the instruction of the resurrected Jesus Christ to his disciples that they spread his teachings to all the nations of the world. The most famous version of the Great Commission is in , where on a mountain in Galilee Jesus calls on his followers to baptize all nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Only the Gospel of Matthew records an earlier lesser commission, only for the Twelve Apostles, in , and directed only to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel", undertaken during Jesus' mortal life, which is similar but different from the episodes of the commissioning of the Twelve Apostles found in the other Synoptic Gospels. Luke also has Jesus dispatching disciples during his ministry, sending them to all the nations and giving them power over demons, including the Seventy disciples. The dispersion of the Apostles in the traditional ending of Mark is thought to be a second-century summary based on Matthew and Luke. It has become a tenet in Christian theology emphasizing ministry, missionary work, evangelism, and baptism. The Apostles are said to have dispersed from Jerusalem and founded the Apostolic Sees. Preterists believe that the Great Commission and other Bible prophecy were fulfilled in the first century while Futurists believe Bible prophecy will be fulfilled at the Second Coming of Christ. Some students of the historical Jesus generally discount the Great Commission as reflecting not Jesus' words but rather the Christian community in which each gospel was written. (See Sayings of Jesus.) Some scholars, such as John Dominic Crossan, assert that Jesus did commission apostles during his lifetime, as reported in the Gospels. Others, however, see even these lesser commissions to represent Christian invention rather than history. ==History== It is unknown who coined the term "The Great Commission". It was likely first used as a summary for the passage by Dutch missionary . However it was popularized by Hudson Taylor. Scholars such as Eduard Riggenbach (in ''Der Trinitarische Taufbefehl'') and J. H. Oldham et al. (in ''The Missionary Motive'') assert that even the very concept did not exist until after the year 1650, and that Matthew 28:18–20 was traditionally interpreted as having been addressed only to Jesus's disciples then living (believed to be up to 500), and as having been carried out by them and fulfilled, not as a continuing obligation upon subsequent generations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Commission」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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