What happened to jesus 40 days after his resurrection

How long did jesus stay on earth after the resurrection

What did Jesus do for 40 days?

After being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus was tempted by the devil for 40 days and nights in the Judaean Desert. Jesus having refused each temptation, Satan then departed and Jesus returned to Galilee to begin his ministry. During this entire time of spiritual battle, Jesus was fasting.

What did Jesus do after he was resurrected?

According to the New Testament, “God raised him from the dead”, he ascended to heaven, to the “right hand of God”, and will return again to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment and establishment of the Kingdom of God.

How many days was Jesus on earth between his resurrection and ascension?

Christians believe that after Jesus rose from the dead, he did not die a second time. Instead, 40 days after his resurrection , Jesus left the Earth by being taken up, body and soul, to Heaven to re-join God the Father. This event is called the ascension , and it was witnessed by Jesus ‘ eleven remaining apostles .

What happened to Jesus 40 days after his resurrection?

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).

How did Jesus survive a 40 day fast?

Jesus had to be careful to remain near the rare water sources as He journeyed those 40 days . Having no food was hard, but without water Jesus would never survive . (The scriptures make it clear that He didn’t eat for those 40 days , but says nothing about doing without water.)

How many times did Jesus appear after his resurrection?

Matthew has two post- Resurrection appearances, the first to Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary” at the tomb, and the second, based on Mark 16:7, to all the disciples on a mountain in Galilee, where Jesus claims authority over heaven and Earth and commissions the disciples to preach the gospel to the whole world.

Who did Jesus first appear to after his resurrection?

9 Now when he was risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene , from whom he had cast out seven demons. 10 She went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

What does the resurrection of Jesus teach us?

The resurrection was God’s divine plan for our redemption. Salvation is to be found in a personal relationship with a living Jesus who did not stay in the gave but was raised from the dead. If you believe that, then you are saved.

How long did Lazarus live after resurrection?

Lazarus of Bethany, also known as Saint Lazarus or Lazarus of the Four Days , venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as (Righteous) Lazarus the Four Days Dead after he rose again, is the subject of a prominent sign of Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death.

What did Jesus do after 40 days in the desert?

Matthew 4:1-11 At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 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 happened 50 days after the resurrection?

The Christian holiday of Pentecost, which is celebrated the 50th day (the seventh Sunday) from Easter Sunday, commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:1–

What day did Jesus die and rise again?

Recent astronomical research uses the contrast between the synoptic date of Jesus’ last Passover on the one hand with John’s date of the subsequent “Jewish Passover ” on the other hand, to propose Jesus’ Last Supper to have been on Wednesday, 1 April AD 33 and the crucifixion on Friday 3 April AD 33 and the Resurrection

Who went to heaven and came back in the Bible?

( Enoch and Elijah are said in scripture to have been taken into heaven while still being alive on Earth and not yet experiencing physical death.)

Could Jesus have survived the crucifixion?

Alexander Metherell, assert that Jesus having survived crucifixion is “impossible” and “a fanciful theory without any possible basis in fact.” Further example may be found in a thorough analysis conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Association, which concluded Jesus was very probably dead even prior to the

The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin: ascensio Iesu, lit.'ascent of Jesus') is the Christian teaching that Christ physically departed from Earth by rising to Heaven, in the presence of eleven of his apostles.[1] According to the New Testament narrative, the Ascension occurred on the fortieth day counting from the resurrection.[1] In the Christian tradition, reflected in the major Christian creeds and confessional statements, God exalted Jesus after his death,[2][3] raising him from the dead and taking him to Heaven, where Jesus took his seat at the right hand of God.[4]

In Christian art, the ascending Jesus is often shown blessing an earthly group below him, signifying the entire Church.[5] The Feast of the Ascension is celebrated on the 40th day of Easter, always a Thursday;[4] some Orthodox traditions have a different calendar up to a month later than in the Western tradition, and while the Anglican Communion continues to observe the feast, many Protestant churches have abandoned the observance.[6][7]

Biblical accounts[edit]

The ascension of Jesus is told in both Luke and Acts, a pair of works from the same author, Luke.[8][1]

• Luke 24:50: Jesus leads the eleven remaining disciples to Bethany, a village on the Mount of Olives, and instructs them to remain in Jerusalem until the coming of the Holy Spirit: "And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy."
• Acts 1: Jesus tells the disciples to remain in Jerusalem and await the coming of the Holy Spirit; he is then taken up from the disciples in their sight, a cloud hides him from view, and two men in white appear to tell them that he will return "in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."[9]

The Gospel of John has three references to ascension in Jesus' own words: "No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man" (John 3:13); "What if you (the disciples) were to see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?" (John 6:62); and to Mary Magdalene after his Resurrection, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father..." (John 20:17).[1] In the first and second Jesus is claiming to be the apocalyptic "one like a Son of Man" of Daniel 7;[10] Various epistles (Romans 8:34, Ephesians 1:19–20, Colossians 3:1, Philippians 2:9–11, 1 Timothy 3:16, and 1 Peter 3:21–22) also refer to an Ascension, seeming, like Luke–Acts and John, to equate it with the post-Resurrection "exaltation" of Jesus to the right hand of God.[11]

Views on the Ascension[edit]

Theology[edit]

In Christian theology, the death, Resurrection, and exaltation of Jesus are the most important events, and a foundation of the Christian faith.[12][13] The early followers of Jesus believed that God had vindicated Jesus after his death, as reflected in the stories about his Resurrection, Ascension, and exaltation.[4] The early followers of Jesus soon believed that Jesus was raised as first of the dead,[14] taken into Heaven, and exalted,[2][3] taking the seat at the right hand of God in Heaven, as stated in the Apostles' Creed: "He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty."[4] Psalms 110:1 played an essential role in this interpretation of Jesus' death and the Resurrection appearances: "The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool." It provided an interpretative frame for Jesus' followers to make sense of his death and the Resurrection appearances.[15][4]

This understanding is summarized by the theologian Justus Knecht who wrote: "Our Lord went up Body and Soul into heaven in the sight of His apostles, by His own power, to take possession of His glory, and to be our Advocate and Mediator in heaven with the Father. He ascended as Man, as Head of the redeemed, and has prepared a dwelling in heaven for all those who follow in His steps (Sixth article of the Creed)."[16]

Background[edit]

Ascension stories were fairly common around the time of Jesus and the evangelists,[17] signifying the deification of a noteworthy person (usually a Roman Emperor), and in Judaism as an indication of divine approval.[18] Another function of heavenly ascent was as a mode of divine revelation reflected in Greco-Roman, early Jewish, and early Christian literary sources, in which particular individuals with prophetic or revelatory gifts are said to have experienced a heavenly journey during which they learned cosmic and divine secrets.[18]

Figures familiar to Jews would have included Enoch (from the Book of Genesis and a popular non-Biblical work called 1 Enoch); the 5th-century sage Ezra; Baruch the companion of the prophet Jeremiah (from a work called 2 Baruch, in which Baruch is promised he will ascend to heaven after forty days); Levi the ancestor of priests; the Teacher of Righteousness from the Qumran community; the prophet Elijah (from 2 Kings); Moses, who was deified on entering heaven; and the children of Job, who according to the Testament of Job ascended heaven following their resurrection from the dead.[19][20]

Non-Jewish readers would have been familiar with the case of the emperor Augustus, whose ascent was witnessed by Senators; Romulus the founder of Rome, who, like Jesus, was taken to heaven in a cloud; the Greek hero Heracles (Hercules); and others.[11]

Cosmology[edit]

The cosmology of the author of Luke-Acts reflects the beliefs of his age,[21] which envisioned a three-part cosmos with the heavens above, an Earth centered on Jerusalem in the middle, and the underworld below.[22][23] Heaven was separated from the Earth by the firmament, the visible sky, a solid inverted bowl where God's palace sat on pillars in the celestial sea.[24] Humans looking up from Earth saw the floor of Heaven, made of clear blue lapis-lazuli (Exodus 24:9–10), as was God's throne (Ezekiel 1:26).[25] According to Dunn, "the typical mind-set and worldview of the time conditioned what was actually seen and how the recording of such seeings was conceptualized,"[21] and "departure into heaven could only be conceived in terms of 'being taken up ', a literal ascension."[21]

In modern times, a literal reading of the Ascension-stories has become problematic, due to the differences between the pre-scientific cosmology of the times of Jesus, and the scientific worldview that leaves no place for a Heaven above earth.[26][27] Theologian James Dunn describes the Ascension as at best a puzzle and at worst an embarrassment for an age that no longer conceives of a physical Heaven located above the Earth.[26] Similarly, in the words of McGill University's Douglas Farrow, in modern times the Ascension is seen less as the climax of the mystery of Christ than as "something of an embarrassment in the age of the telescope and the space probe,"[27] an "idea [that] conjures up an outdated cosmology."[28]

Yet, according to Dunn, a sole focus on this disparity is beside the real importance of Jesus' Ascension, namely the Resurrection and subsequent exaltation of Jesus.[13] Farrow notes that, already in the third century, the Ascension-story was read by Origen in a mystical way, as an "ascension of the mind rather than of the body," representing one of two basic Ascension theologies.[29] The real problem is the fact that Jesus is both present and absent,[30] an ambiguity which points to a "something more" to which the Eucharist gives entry.[31][note 1]

Liturgy: Feast of the Ascension[edit]

The Feast of the Ascension is a major feast day of the Christian liturgical year, along with the Passion, Easter, Pentecost, and Christmas.[6] Ascension Day is traditionally celebrated on the sixth Thursday after Easter Sunday, the fortieth day from Easter day, although some Roman Catholic provinces have moved the observance to the following Sunday to facilitate the obligation to attend Mass. Saint Jerome held that it was of apostolic origin, but in fact the Ascension was originally part of Pentecost (the coming of the Holy Spirit), and developed as a separate celebration only slowly from the late 4th century onward. In the Catholic tradition it begins with a three-day "rogation" to ask for God's mercy, and the feast itself includes a procession of torches and banners symbolising Christ's journey to the Mount of Olives and entry into Heaven, the extinguishing of the Paschal candle, and an all-night vigil; white is the liturgical colour. The Eastern Orthodox tradition has a slightly different calendar up to a month later than in the Western tradition. The feast was retained at the Protestant Reformation. It continues to be observed in Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, and most Reformed churches. Most other Protestant churches do not celebrate it as they do not adhere to the traditional Christian calendar of feasts.[6][7]

One of the Ascension hymns is Christ fuhr gen Himmel.

In Christian art[edit]

The Ascension has been a frequent subject in Christian art.[34] By the 6th century, the iconography of the Ascension had been established and by the 9th century, Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.[35][36] The Rabbula Gospels (c. 586) include some of the earliest images of the Ascension.[36] Many Ascension scenes have two parts, an upper (Heavenly) part and a lower (earthly) part. The ascending Christ may be carrying a Resurrection banner or make a sign of benediction with his right hand.[37] The blessing gesture by Christ with his right hand is directed towards the earthly group below him and signifies that he is blessing the entire Church.[5] In the left hand, he may be holding a Gospel or a scroll, signifying teaching and preaching.[5]

The Eastern Orthodox portrayal of the Ascension is a major metaphor for the mystical nature of the Church.[38] In many Eastern icons, the Virgin Mary is placed at the center of the scene in the earthly part of the depiction, with her hands raised towards Heaven, often accompanied by various Apostles.[38] The upwards-looking depiction of the earthly group matches the Eastern liturgy on the Feast of the Ascension: "Come, let us rise and turn our eyes and thoughts high ..."[5]

Olivet and the Chapel of the Ascension[edit]

Close-up of the Rock of the Ascension inside the Ascension edicule

The traditional site of the Ascension is Mount Olivet (the "Mount of Olives"), on which the village of Bethany sits. Before the conversion of Constantine in 312 AD, early Christians honored the Ascension of Christ in a cave on the Mount, and by 384 the Ascension was venerated on the present site, uphill from the cave.[citation needed]

Around the year 390 a wealthy Roman woman named Poimenia financed construction of the original church called "Eleona Basilica" (elaion in Greek means "olive garden", from elaia "olive tree", and has an oft-mentioned similarity to eleos meaning "mercy"). This church was destroyed by Sassanid Persians in 614. It was subsequently rebuilt, destroyed, and rebuilt again by the Crusaders. This final church was later destroyed by Muslims, leaving only a 12×12 meter octagonal structure (called a martyrium—"memorial"—or "Edicule") that remains to this day.[citation needed][39] The site was ultimately acquired by two emissaries of Saladin in the year 1198 and has remained in the possession of the Islamic Waqf of Jerusalem ever since. The Russian Orthodox Church also maintains a convent of the Ascension on the top of the Mount of Olives.

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See also[edit]

• Ascension Parish
• Assumption of Mary
• Chronology of Jesus
• Church of the Ascension (disambiguation)
• Entering Heaven Alive
• Life of Jesus in the New Testament
• Post-resurrection appearances of Jesus
• Rapture
• Session of Christ
• Transfiguration of Jesus

References[edit]

Notes[edit]

1. ^ According to Farrow, this ambiguity of absence and presence poses central christological and theological questions concerning the identity of the church and its relation to past (death and resurrection) and future (second coming) events,[32] and to the present world, in which it is situated, but from which it is also different, through "it's mysterious union with one whose life, though lived for the world, involves a genuine break with it."[33]

Citations[edit]

1. ^ a b c d Holwerda 1979, p. 310.
2. ^ a b Novakovic 2014, p. 135.
3. ^ a b Hurtado 2005, p. 508, 591.
4. ^ a b c d e Cross & Livingstone 2005, p. 114.
5. ^ a b c d Ouspensky & Lossky 1999, p. 197.
6. ^ a b c Quast 2011, p. 45.
7. ^ a b Stokl-Ben-Ezra 2007, p. 286.
8. ^ Thompson 2010, p. 319.
9. ^ Müller 2016, p. 113-114.
10. ^ Köstenberger 2004, p. 85.
11. ^ a b McDonald 2004, p. 21.
12. ^ Dunn 1985, p. 53.
13. ^ a b Dunn 2009, p. 149.
14. ^ Novakovic 2014, p. 152.
15. ^ Dunn 2009, p. 218.
16. ^ Knecht, Friedrich Justus (1910). "Chapter ·LXXXIII. The Ascension of Jesus Christ" . A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture. B. Herder.
17. ^ McDonald 2004, p. 22.
18. ^ a b Aune 2003a, p. 65.
19. ^ Munoa 2000, p. 109.
20. ^ Zwiep 2016, p. 16.
21. ^ a b c Dunn 2009, p. 148.
22. ^ Wright 2002, p. 53.
23. ^ Najman 2014, p. 93.
24. ^ Pennington 2007, p. 41-42.
25. ^ Wright 2002, p. 54,56.
26. ^ a b Seim 2009, p. 23.
27. ^ a b Farrow 2011, p. 16.
28. ^ Farrow 2004, p. 9.
29. ^ Farrow 2011, p. 17.
30. ^ Farrow 2004, p. 3, 8.
31. ^ Farrow 2004, p. 3.
32. ^ Farrow 2004, p. 8-9.
33. ^ Farrow 2004, p. 11.
34. ^ Becchio & Schadé 2006, unpaginated.
35. ^ Baggley 2000, p. 137-138.
36. ^ a b Jensen 2008, p. 51-53.
37. ^ Earls 1987, p. 26-27.
38. ^ a b Nes 2005, p. 87.
39. ^ "The Christ Church Angelus". archive.constantcontact.com. Retrieved 2020-05-26.

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• Aune, David (2003a). "Ascent, heavenly". The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664219178.
• Baggley, John (2000). Festival Icons for the Christian Year. St Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 9780881412017.
• Becchio, Bruno; Schadé, Johannes P. (2006). "Ascension". Encyclopedia of World Religions. Foreign Media Group. ISBN 9781601360007.
• Cresswell, Peter (2013). The Invention of Jesus: How the Church Rewrote the New Testament. Duncan Baird Publishers. ISBN 9781780286211.
• Cross, F.L.; Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2005). "Ascension". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192802903.
• Dunn, James D.G. (1985). The Evidence for Jesus. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664246983.
• Dunn, James D.G. (2009). Christianity in the Making Volume 2: Beginning From Jerusalem. Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802839329.
• Earls, Irene (1987). Renaissance Art: A Topical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313246586.
• Farrow, Douglas (2004). Ascension And Ecclesia. A&C Black. ISBN 9780567083258.
• Farrow, Douglas B. (2011), Ascension Theology, Bloomsbury Publishing
• Holwerda, D.E. (1979). "Ascension". In Bromiley, Geoffrey (ed.). The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802837813.
• Hurtado, Larry (2005), Lord Jesus Christ. Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity, Eerdmans
• Jensen, Robin M. (2008). "Art in Early Christianity". In Benedetto, Robert; Duke, James O. (eds.). The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664224165.
• Köstenberger, Andreas J. (2004). John. Baker Academic. ISBN 9780801026447.
• Lawson, Todd (2009). The Crucifixion and the Quran: A Study in the History of Muslim Thought. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 978-1851686353.
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• Müller, Mogens (2016). "Acts as biblical rewriting of the gospels and Paul's letters". In Müller, Mogens; Nielsen, Jesper Tang (eds.). Luke's Literary Creativity. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780567665836.
• Munoa, Phillip (2000). "Ascension". In Freedman, David Noel; Myers, Allen C. (eds.). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Eerdmans. ISBN 9789053565032.
• Najman, Hindy (2014). Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future: An Analysis of 4 Ezra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139915847.
• Nes, Solrunn (2005). The Mystical Language of Icons. Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802829160.
• Novakovic, Lidija (2014), Raised from the Dead According to Scripture: The Role of the Old Testament in the Early Christian Interpretations of Jesus' Resurrection, A&C Black
• Ouspensky, Léonide; Lossky, Vladimir (1999). The Meaning of Icons. St Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 9780913836774.
• Pennington, Jonathan T. (2007). Heaven and earth in the Gospel of Matthew. BRILL. ISBN 978-9004162051.
• Quast, Kevin (1991). Reading the Gospel of John. Paulist Press. ISBN 9780809132973.
• Quast, Kevin (2011). "Ascension Day". In Melton, J. Gordon (ed.). Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual Commemorations. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781598842050.
• Seim, Turid Karlsen (2009). "The Resurrected Body in Luke-Acts: The Significance of Space". In Seim, Turid Karlsen; Økland, Jorunn (eds.). Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110202991.
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• Thompson, Richard P. (2010). "Luke-Acts: The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles". In Aune, David E. (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to The New Testament. Wiley–Blackwell. ISBN 9781444318944.
• Wright, J. Edward (2002). The Early History of Heaven. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198029816.
• Zwiep, Arie W. (2016). "Ascension scholarship past present and future". In Pao, David W.; Bryan, David K. (eds.). Ascent into Heaven in Luke-Acts: New Explorations of Luke's Narrative Hinge. Fortress Press. ISBN 9781506418964.

Further reading[edit]

• Aune, David (2003b). "Cosmology". The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664219178.
• Burkett, Delbert (2002). An introduction to the New Testament and the origins of Christianity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521007207.
• Charlesworth, James H. (2008). The Historical Jesus: An Essential Guide. Abingdon Press. ISBN 9781426724756.
• Collins, Adela Yarbro (2000). Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism. BRILL. ISBN 978-9004119277.
• Davies, J. G. (1958). He Ascended into Heaven, London: Lutterworth Press.
• Dawson, Gerrit (2004). Jesus Ascended: The Meaning of Christ's Continuing Incarnation. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780567119872.
• Deharbe, Joseph (1912). "The Sixth Article: 'He ascended into Heaven, sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.'" . A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion. Translated by Rev. John Fander. Schwartz, Kirwin & Fauss.
• Farrow, Douglas (2011). Ascension Theology. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780567651884.
• Hurtado, Larry W. (2005). Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802831675.
• Knecht, Friedrich Justus (1910). "The Ascension of Jesus Christ" . A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture. B. Herder.
• Knight, Douglas A.; Levine, Amy-Jill (2011). The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062098597.
• Lee, Sang Meyng (2010). The Cosmic Drama of Salvation. Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 9783161503160.
• Lincoln, Andrew (2004). Paradise Now and Not Yet. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521609395.
• Packer, J. I. (2008). Affirming the Apostles' Creed. Crossway. ISBN 9781433522017.
• Park, Eung Chun (2003). Either Jew or Gentile: Paul's Unfolding Theology of Inclusivity. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664224530.
• Vermes, Geza (2001). The Changing Faces of Jesus. Penguin UK. ISBN 9780141912585.
• Wynne, John Joseph (1907). "Ascension" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
• Zwiep, Arie W. (1997). The Ascension of the Messiah in Lukan Christology. BRILL. ISBN 978-9004108974.

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