Jesus In India — Page 37
CHAPTER ONE 27 exactly similar to the one in which Jesus, the Messiah, was placed in a state of swoon. In short, the verse I have just quoted shows that Jesus, the Messiah, after coming out of the tomb, went to Galilee. And it is written in the Gospel of Mark that after coming out of the tomb, he was seen travelling on the road to Galilee, and eventually he met those eleven disciples when they were eating their meal; and he showed them his hands and feet which bore wounds; and they thought that he was perhaps a spirit. Then he said to them: 'It is I myself; touch me and see for a spirit has no flesh and bones as I have. Then he took a piece of broiled fish, and of an honeycomb and ate it before them. See Mark 16:14¹ and Luke 24:39-42. 2 From these verses it can be learned with certainty that Jesus, the Messiah, never went to heaven; rather, coming out of the tomb he went to Galilee and appeared like human beings hav- ing the same ordinary body and ordinary customary clothes. If he had been resurrected after death, how was it that his spiritual 1. 'Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and up- braided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. ' Mark 16:14 [Publisher] 2. 'And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affright- ed, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spo- ken, he shewed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them. Luke 24:36-43 [Publisher]