# Jesus II: After the Ressurection? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 7, 2000, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ii-after-the-ressurection/6048 "2000-01-07T23:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ii-after-the-ressurection/6048/1 "2000-01-07T23:15:00Z")
Here’s my question: what happened to J.C. after he rose from the dead? ---
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ii-after-the-ressurection/6048/2 "2000-01-07T23:19:00Z")
Isn’t that covered in Acts of the Apostles? ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ii-after-the-ressurection/6048/3 "2000-01-07T23:52:00Z")
All four Gospels cover the post-Resurrection Jesus. Jesus makes his last personal appearance in the Bible in Acts, when he ascends into heaven, forty days after his resurrection. The ressurected Jesus is seen by Mary Magdalene, some disciples from Emmaus, and with the Apostles several times. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ii-after-the-ressurection/6048/4 "2000-01-08T03:20:00Z")
Jesus is reported as being what some think is the example of the resurrected body of the believer. He is walking through doors, disappearing, etc, yet making physical contact with people and eating fish. As a finale, he rose into heaven. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ii-after-the-ressurection/6048/5 "2000-01-08T03:49:00Z")
The topic sounds like the title for an action movie. Jesus II: the Ressurrection. “He’s back, and he’s pissed.” * * * “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ii-after-the-ressurection/6048/6 "2000-01-08T16:48:00Z")
“He ascended into heaven; he sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence ye shall come to judge the quick and the dead.” Or something along those lines. Mainly he seems to have spent his time sitting next to himself waiting for an appropriate time to do the Second Coming schtick. Hmm…do believers in the Second Coming believe in reincarnation? * * * Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post ---
**Author:** ![RobRoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ba0ec/32.png) [@RobRoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobRoy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ii-after-the-ressurection/6048/7 "2000-01-08T19:34:00Z")
The resurection of the personal self in Christianity seems a little narrowminded and “grasping” in the Buddhist sense. To wit - the desire for rebirth is a major hang-up preventing enlightenment in Buddhism. Like the woman who asked Dear Abby “I understand that I will be reunited with my first love - but that’s not my husband, who will it be?”. Carrying these personal trifles into the promised land is a sad, primitive concern yet consistent with the obsession with indivuality and a historical timeline that are centerpieces of Greek-thought-influenced Christianity. I’d rather melt into the great unknown. ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ii-after-the-ressurection/6048/8 "2000-01-08T19:49:00Z")
I once subbed for a 7th grade History teacher. One of his classes had a Jesus I a Jesus II, a Jesus III and a Jesus IV. His seating chart actually used Roman numerals. There were only two Juans. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ii-after-the-ressurection/6048/9 "2000-01-12T08:19:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Robroy: To wit - the desire for rebirth is a major hang-up preventing enlightenment in Buddhism. > > Like the woman who asked Dear Abby “I understand that I will be reunited with my first love - but that’s not my husband, who will it be?”. Carrying these personal trifles into the promised land is a sad, primitive concern yet consistent with the obsession with indivuality and a historical timeline that are centerpieces of Greek-thought-influenced Christianity. > > I’d rather melt into the great unknown. Funny you should use this example… > [@](#): > > Luke 20:27 Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to him, 28 saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’ 29 Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. 30 Then the second 31 and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless. 32 Finally the woman also died. 33 Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.” 34 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry and remarry; 35 but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise. Seems to answer the Budhist challenge, as well as the Sadducee. * * * And on to the OP: > [@](#): > > 1Cor 15:3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures; 4 that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures; 5 that he appeared to Kephas, then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. Peace.