Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 11
Chapter One—Passages from the Gospels 11 should have told us who the saints were that came to life again and went into the city, and what became of them afterwards, and who it was that saw them—for he is not hardy enough to say that he saw them himself—whether they came out naked, and all in natural buff, he-saints and she-saints; or whether they came fully dressed, and from where they got their clothes; whether they went to their former habitations and reclaimed their wives, their hus- bands, and their property, and how they were received; whether they entered ejectments for the recovery of their possessions or brought actions of criminal conspiracy against the rival interlopers; or whether they died again, or went back to their graves alive and buried themselves. Strange indeed that an army of saints should return to life and nobody knows who they were, or who it was who saw them and that not a word more should be said upon the subject, nor have these saints anything to tell us! Had it been the prophets who (as we are told) had formerly prophesied of these things, they must have had a great deal to say. They could have told us everything, and we should have had posthumous prophecies, with notes and commentaries upon the first, a little better at least than we have now. Had it been Moses, and Aaron, and Joshua, and Samuel, and David, not an unconverted Jew would have remained in Jerusalem. Had it been John the Baptist, and the saints of the times then present, everybody would have known them, and they would have out-preached and out-framed all the other apostles. But instead of this, these