To MAKE A DISCIPLE of somebody — a transitive verb built on mathētēs, a learner or apprentice, and not the same thing as 'teach' (didaskō, which Matthew 28:20 uses separately, in the next breath). ⚠ It occurs three times in Matthew and nowhere else in the Gospels, and the pattern is the point: twice in the PASSIVE, of a scribe 'who has been made a disciple of the kingdom' (13:52) and of Joseph of Arimathea, who 'had been made a disciple' (27:57) — and then once in the ACTIVE, as the imperative carrying the last command in the book, mathēteusate panta ta ethnē (28:19). Two men are made disciples, and then the made are told to make. ⚠ Its object at 28:19 is the NATIONS, not individuals, which is a grammatical fact worth noticing before anybody uses it as an argument. → first discussed at Matt 13:52