Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 79
Chapter Seven— Did Jesus Ascend to Heaven? It is evident from the four accounts of the Gospel writers that Jesus came out of the sepulchre with his physical body. When the disciples thought him a spirit, he said: ‘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. ’ Then he asked them, ‘Have ye here any meat?’ And they gave him a piece of broiled fish and of a honeycomb. And he took it and did eat before them. 1 He met his disciples only in secret or in out of the way places for fear of being rearrested. He did not show himself to others, as Peter says: ‘God. . shewed him openly; not to all the people, but unto witnesses cho- sen before of God, even to us who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead’. 2 Had he risen from the dead or his body been converted or 1. Luke 24:39–43 2. The Acts 10:40–41