Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 34
The disciples of Jesus bear witness that a few days after the event of the crucifixion they beheld, on the physical body of Jesus, the marks of the wounds and injuries that had been inflicted upon him in the course of the process of crucifixion. They beheld only the physical body of Jesus, and did not observe any glorified manifestation. There is the evidence of the disciples that Jesus traveled in their company for a few miles on his way to Galilee, and that, at their request, he passed a night with them at Emmaus. The disciples bear witness that Jesus was at that time hungry, and asked them for food, and was given broiled fish and a honeycomb to eat. This also confirms that he was then in his physical body, and had not discarded it for a spiritual, or a glorified, manifestation. All this shows that Jesus comported himself, after the event of the crucifixion, all the time, according to the requirements of a physical, material body, eating, drinking, sleeping and travelling, which activities are utterly inconsistent with his having discarded his physical body, and having assumed a glorified spiritual manifestation. It is worthy of reflection how, having been invested with a glorious and immortal body, free from the needs of a mortal body, with which he was to sit on the right hand of God Almighty, and which was free from every stain, pain or defect, and was illumined with eternal Divine glory, he still bore the marks of his injuries and suffered pain and was subject to all the needs and requirements to which a physical body is subject. It is thus obvious that Jesus did not die upon the cross, nor was he invested with a new glorious body but had become unconscious on the cross and had the appearance of one who had died. The reported affirmation of Jesus: "But after I am risen again, I will go before you 26 into