Resurrection Appearances of Jesus Christ During
The Forty Days He was on Earth
According to the Scriptures we know that Jesus Christ died at the exact time of the Passover sacrifice on Wednesday afternoon on the 14th of Nisan. He was in the grave for 72 hours according to Matthew 12:40: “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” He arose from the dead Saturday afternoon. The first person to see him in his resurrected body was Mary Magdalene on Sunday while it was still dark.
| Event | When | Scripture Reference |
| Mary Magdalene | Sunday AM still dark | John 20:1-18, Mark 16:9-11 |
| Other women; Mary mother of James, Joanna & others | Sunday early morning | Matthew 28:5-10, Mark 16:1-8, Luke 24:1-12 |
| Cleopas and the other man on the road to Emmaus | Sunday afternoon | Mark 16:12, Luke 24:13-35 |
| Peter | Sunday afternoon | I Cor. 15:5a, Luke 24:34 |
| 11 Apostles & others (Thomas missing, Judas there) |
Early evening | Mark 16:14, Luke 24:36-44, John 20:19-29 |
| 12 Apostles in Galilee | Eight days after his first appearance | Matthew 28:17-20, John 20:19-29, I Cor. 15:5b |
| 5 Apostles & 2 disciples fishing on the Sea of Galilee | Exact time unknown | John 21:1-23 |
| Above 500 | Exact time unknown | I Cor. 15:6 |
| James | Exact time unknown | I Cor. 15:7a |
| 11 Apostles (Judas, probably seeing the ascension, left before the angels declared, “Ye men ofGalilee” in Acts 1:11) | 40th day, the ascension | Mark 16:15-19, Luke 24:45-51, Acts 1:9-11 |
What a glory that must have been to see our lord and savior in his new body. What is even more exciting is that He “shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself” (Philippians 3:21).
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