Matthew chapter 28

(Mt 28.10) Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brother that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.

In the last chapter of Gospel Matthew, Jesus was risen from the dead and asked the disciples to go to Galilee to meet him. However, why Galilee? Why at this moment? As the records in Act 1, before being taked to the heaven, Jesus asked the disciples to go to Jerusalem again, to stay there praying and waiting for the holy esprit. So, why did Jesus recall the disciples go back first from Jerusalem to Galilee since his resurrection?

I reviewed Jesus's whole life and his paths and found that Province Galilee is where he's from and where the disciples were chosen. Jesus spent most of his time in this area preaching, saving people and training his disciples. I think that Galilee was the very place memorable to all the disciples. They can recall many things there, like as the touching moment, the parapoles they heard, the difficulties they faced, and the peace and the joy they experenced...etc. (Just as what we're doing. We finish reading this Gospel and try to recall what we experienced with Jesus in this month:) ) I think that one of the meanings to recall them back to this "start-point" is to make them recall the mood that they decided to follow Jesus. Besides, this is also an important preperation for sending them to preach in the future. So, whenever we became weak, we should go back to our start-point of faith to recall our memories with God and to restrenthen ourselves; whenever we're going to do some works for God, we should go back to our secret base with God to search for strength and teachings.