The Great CommissionSample

Consider the significance of what the Lord explained just prior to His departure, “I tell you for certain that if you have faith in Me, you will do the same things that I am doing. You will do even greater things, now that I am going back to the Father.” (John 14:12)

Unquestionably, they were being taught to adopt His lifestyle of highly effective ministry. We all know that no one could perform works of greater "quality" than our Lord, but rather it seems that He was referring to greater "quantity."

Church history goes on to clearly reveal that personal evangelism and disciple-making in ever-increasing scope were the “greater works” about which He was speaking. The multiplying number of growing new believers following the day of Pentecost immediately demonstrated the beginning of the fulfillment of His prophesy!

He had already given them the multiplication principle, “Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew, and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.” (Mark 4:8) From the day of Pentecost onwards, they began to these "greater works" in action!