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What Does Matthew 18:20 Mean? Where Two or Three Are Gathered

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  • In Matthew 18:20 Jesus promises, “where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
  • He says it at the end of his teaching on how to win back a brother who has sinned: first alone, then with witnesses, then before the church.
  • The goal of every step is reconciliation, and right afterwards Jesus tells Peter to forgive “until seventy times seven.”
  • The word for “agree” in verse 19 means to sound together, and Cyprian of Carthage warned that the promise belongs to those who pray in peace, not to those who divide the church.
  • The verse does not mean Jesus is absent from someone praying alone; he also promised, “I am with you always.”
  • Catholics hear it as Christ’s presence when the Church prays and sings, and Anglicans pray it in the Prayer of St Chrysostom at Morning Prayer.

Jesus promises in Matthew 18:20 to be present with even two or three of his followers who meet in his name. He says it while teaching how to win back a brother who has sinned (verses 15–17) and how to pray in agreement (verse 19), so the promise first stands behind a small church making a hard decision together. The King James Version gives his words this way: “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there…

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  • The Bible, King James Version, from BibleGateway: Matthew 1:23, 6:6, 9:10–13, 10:3, 16:19, 18:1–22, 26:39, 28:20; Deuteronomy 19:15; Psalm 139:7–10; John 20:19; 1 John 5:14. biblegateway.com
  • El Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica, paragraphs 1444–1445. vatican.va
  • La Confesión de Fe de Westminster (1646), chapter 30, “Of Church Censures,” as published by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. opc.org
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  • Cipriano de Cartago, Sobre la unidad de la Iglesia 12, trans. Robert Ernest Wallis, Ante-Nicene Fathers vol. 5 (1886). NewAdvent.org
  • John Chapman, “St. Cyprian of Carthage,” la Enciclopedia Católica, vol. 4 (1908). NewAdvent.org
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  • Mishnah, Pirkei Avot 3:2, English translation and commentary, D.A.F. (Dafyomi Advancement Forum). dafyomi.co.il
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  • Concilio Vaticano II, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 7 (4 December 1963). vatican.va
  • El Libro de Oración Común (1928), The Order for Daily Morning Prayer, A Prayer of St. Chrysostom. justus.anglican.org

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