And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. The object of the verb is nations . While individuals make up nations, nations is the objective of our Lord's commission to His Church.
Participles work with a verb to further explain it.
That is how we make disciples of all nations . It ends only with all nations. Many people today are seeking to fulfill the Great Commission by sending themselves instead of being sent by the Church and see their objective as reaching only individuals and not nations. While it is true that individuals are involved, we need to keep our perspective that our Lord's commission was to His Church to reach all nations. God is interested in peoples or nations.