Go to my brothers and tell them

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Matthias

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“Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

(John 20:17, NET)
 

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Really not much to say, is there?

“1. The one God. (a) theos is the most frequent designation of God in the NT. Belief in the one, only, and unique God (Matt. 23:9; Rom. 3:30; 1 Cor. 8:4-6; Gal. 3:20; 1 Tim. 2:5; Jas. 2:19) is an established part of Christian tradition. Jesus himself made the fundamental confession of Jud. his own and expressly quoted the Shema (Deut. 6:4-5; see Mk. 12:29-30; cf. Matt. 22:37; Lk. 10:27). This guaranteed continuity between the old and new covenants. The God whom Christians worship is the God of the fathers (Acts 3:13; 5:30; 22:14), the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Acts 3:13; 7:32; cf. Matt. 22:32; Mk. 12:26; Lk. 20:37), the God of Israel (Matt. 15:31; Lk. 1:68; Acts 13:17), and the God of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 1:3; Eph. 1:3; 1 Pet. 1:13.)”

(New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Abridged Edition, p. 244)

Jesus and his brothers (the apostles and the other disciples) are Jewish monotheists. His God and their God is the one, only, and unique God of Judaism and primitive Christianity.

Jesus himself makes the best case for Jewish monotheism. All scripture must, and does, align with Jesus. That says it all in my mind.