Doing What Is Taught

In the “great commission,” Jesus instructs His disciples to “teach” the nations to keep all that He has commanded and taught them.  From the first, Matthew shows, there is an alternative gospel, with an alternative form of discipleship, an alternative teaching.  Just as Jesus instructs the disciples to do all He commands, so the Jewish leaders “teach” the soldiers to proclaim an alternative gospel, that the disciples had stolen Jesus’ body.