I Will Be with You

Matthew ends his story with what may be the most fundamental promise of the covenant that God makes with his people: "I will be with you." It obviously made an impression on Matthew, because he uses this promise as bookends to his gospel. In chapter 1, an angel had said that the baby was to be named Jesus but that "they will call him Immanuel" - God with us. Now in the last line of the book, we find out who the angel was talking about when he said "they." He was talking about his disciples; he was talking about us. Here Matthew explain it in his own words.