Acts 1:3 tells us after Jesus rose from the dead He made appearances to many people during 40 days’ time — the Gospels and the book of Acts recount several of these events and Paul also testifies to Jesus’ numerous resurrection appearances in 1 Corinthians. Show Then, 40 days after His resurrection, Jesus ascended into heaven. May 27 was the 40th day after Easter and many churches observed His ascension while others will wait to do so this Sunday. Jesus, who declared Himself to be God and then proved it by His resurrection, finished His mission on earth. He came to die for the world’s sins and rise again to give everlasting life to all who believe in Him. Having finished this mission, He ascended into heaven. Jesus didn’t leave us alone. He promised to send a helper, the Holy Spirit. Jesus told the apostles twice in John 16, “He will take what is mine and declare it to you.” (English Standard Version) The Holy Spirit points people to Jesus through the Word of God so they may hear and believe Jesus is the Savior of the world. Thus, the apostle Peter would later say about the Word of God, “Men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” Jesus promised He wouldn’t abandon His people. Indeed, He says at the end of Matthew’s Gospel in 28:20, “I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Jesus remains with His people by His Word. Jesus said in John 8:31-32, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Later (14:6) Jesus would say, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” Jesus is the truth and the truth is His Word. They can’t be separated, for His Word reveals to all people who He is and what He has done for all people. Jesus also promised He will come again on judgment day. As Jesus was ascending into heaven, two angels appeared to the disciples and said, “Why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11) Just as Jesus ascended in the fullness of His glory, so He will descend on the last day in the fullness of His glory. It will be a marvelous day for all who believe. The apostle declares in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, “The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first…then we who are alive…and so we will always be with the Lord.” This is a joyful day of excitement and so the Bible closes with the most fitting words in Revelation 22:20: “Amen. Come Lord Jesus!” Travis E. Lauterbach is Pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church at Falcon Mesa Business Park, 350 Falcon Ridge Parkway, Building 600. Worship services are held each Sunday at 10:30 am. DEAR DR. GRAHAM: What happened to Jesus after His resurrection? I know He was with His disciples for several weeks, but is it possible He lived on for a period of some years and maybe even had a family, as I've heard some people say? -- N.G. DEAR N.G.: The Bible clearly states that after His resurrection Jesus repeatedly appeared to His disciples over a period of 40 days, and then miraculously ascended into the presence of God. The Bible says, "He was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight" (Acts 1:9). All of these events -- His sacrificial death, His resurrection from the dead, His ascension into heaven -- were possible only because of who Jesus was: God's only Son, sent from heaven to save us from our sins. He wasn't just a great teacher or religious leader; He was God in human flesh! From His miraculous conception through His final ascension into heaven, Jesus demonstrated that "God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him" (Colossians 1:19). Those who reject this, however, are forced to come up with some other explanation for Jesus' life and death -- which is why you have novelists (for example) claiming that Jesus didn't really die on the cross but lived for many years afterward. But if that were true, why would His disciples willingly die for their faith in the risen Christ? Don't turn your back on Christ. Even now He is in heaven, and someday He will come again to bring an end to the evils of this world. Nothing could be better news -- and it can change your life. Open your heart to Christ today.
Jesus Christ sits with and teaches his apostles, disciples and followers after his resurrection in this image from the Bible Videos. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints We easily imagine that Christ’s ascension into heaven occurred shortly after his resurrection. The New Testament account, however, suggests otherwise. The intriguing first verses of the “Acts of the Apostles” read as follows: “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” (Acts 1:1-3). The New Testament books of Luke and Acts both address an otherwise unidentified reader called “Theophilus.” This could easily represent the actual name of an individual person. However, since it means something like “friend of God,” “beloved of God” or “loving God,” “Theophilus” might have been some person’s honorific title or perhaps even an indicator that Luke was addressing anybody who fit that description. Both books were written by the evangelist Luke on the basis of eyewitness testimony — the original Greek of Acts 1:1-4 is much clearer on this point than is the King James translation — and scholars often refer to them as a composite work they call “Luke-Acts.” So what about the somewhat mysterious Acts 1:1-3? First, it indicates that Christ’s ascension occurred fully 40 days after Easter. In other words, he was on earth, at least intermittently, for substantially more than a month. Was it precisely 40 days? That’s difficult to know. In Noah’s time, “the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights” (Genesis 7:12). Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights (Matthew 4:2, Mark 1:13, Luke 4:2). Traditionally, in the Middle East, “forty” is a large but rounded and imprecise number. (Think of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.”) What was Jesus doing during this extended period? Luke says that he demonstrated to his followers that he was alive “by many infallible proofs” — or, as some translations have it, via “convincing proofs” or “in convincing ways.” But this can’t have required 40 days. He also taught his disciples about the kingdom of God. But what was he teaching? Did he merely repeat what he had already taught them? If so, why? Strikingly, not a single obvious quotation from those forty days of instruction appears in the New Testament. Luke tells us nothing of their content. It has been estimated that every word of Jesus in the four gospels — covering three years of mortal ministry — could be read aloud in approximately four hours. Plainly, the New Testament doesn’t contain everything Jesus did and taught. Things are missing, but we don’t know how many or how much. In Acts 20:35, the apostle Paul quotes Jesus as saying, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” But no such statement occurs in either Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. For devout Christians, even a day’s worth of new teaching from the Savior, let alone 40 days’ worth, would be a treasure beyond price. Yet, curiously, many Christians seem passionately committed to the notion that the Bible contains all there was, is, or ever will be: “And because my words shall hiss forth — many of the Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible. … "Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever. Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my words; neither need ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written" (2 Nephi 29:3, 8-10). The late Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley wrote a classic article on the enigmatic “forty-day ministry”: His “Evangelium Quadraginta Dierum: The Forty-day Mission of Christ — The Forgotten Heritage” originally appeared in 1966 in the academic journal “Vigiliae Christianae.” Reprinted several times since, it is accessible online at
publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1104&index=3. What did Jesus do during the 40 days?Matthew 4:1-11
He fasted for forty days and forty nights and afterwards was hungry. The tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.
What are the 40 days after the resurrection called?Ascension, in Christian belief, the ascent of Jesus Christ into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection (Easter being reckoned as the first day). The Feast of the Ascension ranks with Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost in the universality of its observance among Christians.
What events happened for 40 days in the Bible?The Israelite spies took 40 days to spy out Canaan (Numbers 13:25). The Israelites wandered for 40 years (Deuteronomy 8:2-5). Before Samson's deliverance, Israel served the Philistines for 40 years (Judges 13:1). Goliath taunted Saul's army for 40 days before David arrived to slay him (1 Samuel 17:16).
What happened after the resurrection of Jesus?He appeared to his disciples, calling the apostles to the Great Commission of proclaiming the Gospel of eternal salvation through his death and resurrection, and ascended to Heaven.
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