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==PAPER 189: THE RESURRECTION==

==PAPER 189: THE RESURRECTION==

189:0.1 Soon after the [[burial]] of [[Jesus]] on Friday afternoon, the chief of the [[archangels]] of [[Nebadon]], then present on [[Urantia]], [[summoned]] his [[council]] of the [[resurrection]] of [[sleeping]] [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]] and entered upon the [[consideration]] of a possible [[technique]] for the restoration of [[Jesus]]. These [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 assembled sons of the local universe], the [[creatures]] of [[Michael]], did this on their own [[responsibility]]; [[Gabriel]] had not assembled them. By midnight they had arrived at the conclusion that the [[creature]] could do nothing to [[facilitate]] the [[resurrection]] of the [[Creator Son|Creator]]. They were disposed to [[accept]] the [[advice]] of [[Gabriel]], who instructed them that, since [[Michael]] had " laid down his life of his own [[free will]], he also had [[power]] to take it up again in [[accordance]] with his own [[determination]]. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_10] Shortly after the [[adjournment]] of this [[council]] of the [[archangels]], the [[Life Carriers]], and their various [[associates]] in the work of [[creature]] [[rehabilitation]] and [[morontia]] [[creation]], the [[Personalized Adjuster]] of [[Jesus]], being in [[personal]] command of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 assembled celestial hosts] then on [[Urantia]], [[spoke]] these [[words]] to the [[anxious]] waiting watchers:

189:0.1 Soon after the [[burial]] of [[Jesus]] on Friday afternoon, the chief of the [[archangels]] of [[Nebadon]], then present on [[Urantia]], [[summoned]] his [[council]] of the [[resurrection]] of [[sleeping]] [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]] and entered upon the [[consideration]] of a possible [[technique]] for the restoration of [[Jesus]]. These [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 assembled sons of the local universe], the [[creatures]] of [[Michael]], did this on their own [[responsibility]]; [[Gabriel]] had not assembled them. By midnight they had arrived at the conclusion that the [[creature]] could do nothing to [[facilitate]] the [[resurrection]] of the [[Creator Son|Creator]]. They were disposed to [[accept]] the [[advice]] of [[Gabriel]], who instructed them that, since [[Michael]] had " laid down his life of his own [[free will]], he also had [[power]] to take it up again in [[accordance]] with his own [[determination]]. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_10] Shortly after the [[adjournment]] of this [[council]] of the [[archangels]], the [[Life Carriers]], and their various [[associates]] in the work of [[creature]] [[rehabilitation]] and [[morontia]] [[creation]], the [[Personalized Adjuster]] of [[Jesus]], being in [[personal]] command of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 assembled celestial hosts] then on [[Urantia]], [[spoke]] these [[words]] to the [[anxious]] waiting watchers:

189:0.2 " Not one of you can do aught to [[assist]] your [[Creator Son|Creator]]-father in the return to life. As a [[mortal]] of the realm he has [[experienced]] [[mortal]] [[death]]; as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY Sovereign of a universe] he still lives. That which you [[observe]] is the [[mortal]] [[transit]] of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] from life in the [[flesh]] to life in the [[morontia]]. The [[spirit]] [[transit]] of this [[Jesus]] was completed at the time I separated myself from his [[personality]] and became your temporary director. Your [[Creator Son|Creator]]-father has [[elected]] to pass through the whole of the [[experience]] of his [[mortal]] [[creatures]], from [[birth]] on the [[material worlds]], on through [[natural]] [[death]] and the [[resurrection]] of the [[morontia]], into the [[status]] of true [[spirit]] [[existence]]. A certain [[phase]] of this [[experience]] you are about to [[observe]], but you may not [[participate]] in it. Those things which you [[ordinarily]] do for the [[creature]], you may not do for the [[Creator]]. A [[Creator Son]] has within himself the [[power]] to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestow himself] in the likeness of any of his created sons; he has within himself the [[power]] to lay down his observable life and to take it up again; and he has this [[power]] because of the direct command of the [[Paradise Father]], and I know whereof I speak. "

189:0.2 " Not one of you can do aught to [[assist]] your [[Creator Son|Creator]]-father in the return to life. As a [[mortal]] of the realm he has [[experienced]] [[mortal]] [[death]]; as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY Sovereign of a universe] he still lives. That which you [[observe]] is the [[mortal]] [[transit]] of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] from life in the [[flesh]] to life in the [[morontia]]. The [[spirit]] [[transit]] of this [[Jesus]] was completed at the time I separated myself from his [[personality]] and became your temporary director. Your [[Creator Son|Creator]]-father has [[elected]] to pass through the whole of the [[experience]] of his [[mortal]] [[creatures]], from [[birth]] on the [[material worlds]], on through [[natural]] [[death]] and the [[resurrection]] of the [[morontia]], into the [[status]] of true [[spirit]] [[existence]]. A certain [[phase]] of this [[experience]] you are about to [[observe]], but you may not [[participate]] in it. Those things which you [[ordinarily]] do for the [[creature]], you may not do for the [[Creator]]. A [[Creator Son]] has within himself the [[power]] to [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestow himself] in the likeness of any of his created sons; he has within himself the [[power]] to lay down his observable life and to take it up again; and he has this [[power]] because of the direct command of the [[Paradise Father]], and I know whereof I speak. "

189:0.3 When they heard the [[Personalized Adjuster]] so [[speak]], they all [[assumed]] the [[attitude]] of [[anxious]] [[expectancy]], from [[Gabriel]] down to the most [[humble]] [[cherubim]]. They saw the [[mortal]] [[body]] of [[Jesus]] in the [[tomb]]; they detected [[evidences]] of the [[universe]] [[activity]] of their [[Master Son|beloved Sovereign]]; and not [[understanding]] such [[phenomena]], they waited [[patiently]] for [[developments]].

189:0.3 When they heard the [[Personalized Adjuster]] so [[speak]], they all [[assumed]] the [[attitude]] of [[anxious]] [[expectancy]], from [[Gabriel]] down to the most [[humble]] [[cherubim]]. They saw the [[mortal]] [[body]] of [[Jesus]] in the [[tomb]]; they detected [[evidences]] of the [[universe]] [[activity]] of their [[Master Son|beloved Sovereign]]; and not [[understanding]] such [[phenomena]], they waited [[patiently]] for [[developments]].

189:1.8 2. He did not emerge from the [[tomb]] as a [[spirit]] nor as [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]]; he did not appear in the form of the [[Master Son|Creator Sovereign]], such as he had had before his [[incarnation]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]] on [[Urantia]].

189:1.8 2. He did not emerge from the [[tomb]] as a [[spirit]] nor as [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]]; he did not appear in the form of the [[Master Son|Creator Sovereign]], such as he had had before his [[incarnation]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]] on [[Urantia]].

189:1.9 3. He did come forth from this [[tomb]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph] in the very likeness of the [[morontia]] [[personalities]] of those who, as [[resurrected]] [[morontia]] [[ascendant]] [[beings]], emerge from the [[resurrection]] halls of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD first mansion world] of this [[local system]] of [[Satania]]. And the [[presence]] of the [[Michael]] [[memorial]] in the [[center]] of the vast court of the resurrection halls of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD mansonia number one] leads us to [[conjecture]] that [[the Master]]'s [[resurrection]] on [[Urantia]] was in some way fostered on this, the first of [[the system]] [[mansion worlds]].

189:1.9 3. He did come forth from this [[tomb]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph] in the very likeness of the [[morontia]] [[personalities]] of those who, as [[resurrected]] [[morontia]] [[ascendant]] [[beings]], emerge from the [[resurrection]] halls of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD first mansion world] of this [[local system]] of [[Satania]]. And the [[presence]] of the [[Michael]] [[memorial]] in the [[center]] of the vast court of the resurrection halls of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD mansonia number one] leads us to [[conjecture]] that [[the Master]]'s [[resurrection]] on [[Urantia]] was in some way fostered on this, the first of [[the system]] [[mansion worlds]].

189:1.10 The first [[act]] of [[Jesus]] on arising from the [[tomb]] was to greet [[Gabriel]] and instruct him to continue in [[executive]] charge of [[universe]] affairs under [[Immanuel]], and then he directed the chief of the [[Melchizedeks]] to convey his brotherly greetings to [[Immanuel]]. He thereupon asked the [[Most High]] of [[Edentia]] for the certification of the [[Ancients of Days]] as to his [[mortal]] [[transit]]; and turning to the assembled [[morontia]] groups of the [[seven mansion worlds]], here gathered [[together]] to greet and welcome their [[Creator Son|Creator]] as a [[creature]] of their order, [[Jesus]] spoke the first [[words]] of the postmortal [[career]]. Said the [[morontia]] [[Jesus]]: " Having finished my life in the [[flesh]], I would tarry here for a short time in [[transition]] form that I may more fully know the life of my [[ascendant]] [[creatures]] and further [[reveal]] the will of [[the Father|my Father]] in [[Paradise]]. "

189:1.10 The first [[act]] of [[Jesus]] on arising from the [[tomb]] was to greet [[Gabriel]] and instruct him to continue in [[executive]] charge of [[universe]] affairs under [[Immanuel]], and then he directed the chief of the [[Melchizedeks]] to convey his brotherly greetings to [[Immanuel]]. He thereupon asked the [[Most High]] of [[Edentia]] for the certification of the [[Ancients of Days]] as to his [[mortal]] [[transit]]; and turning to the assembled [[morontia]] groups of the [[seven mansion worlds]], here gathered [[together]] to greet and welcome their [[Creator Son|Creator]] as a [[creature]] of their order, [[Jesus]] spoke the first [[words]] of the postmortal [[career]]. Said the [[morontia]] [[Jesus]]: " Having finished my life in the [[flesh]], I would tarry here for a short time in [[transition]] form that I may more fully know the life of my [[ascendant]] [[creatures]] and further [[reveal]] the will of [[the Father|my Father]] in [[Paradise]]. "

==189:2. THE MATERIAL BODY OF JESUS==

==189:2. THE MATERIAL BODY OF JESUS==

189:2.1 At ten minutes past three o'clock, as the [[resurrected]] [[Jesus]] fraternized with the assembled [[morontia]] [[personalities]] from the seven [[mansion worlds]] of [[Satania]], the [[chief]] of [[archangels]]—the [[angels]] of the [[resurrection]]—approached [[Gabriel]] and asked for the [[mortal]] [[body]] of [[Jesus]]. Said the chief of the [[archangels]]: " We may not [[participate]] in the [[morontia]] [[resurrection]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal experience] of [[Michael]] our [[Master Son|sovereign]], but we would have his [[mortal]] remains put in our [[custody]] for [[immediate]] [[dissolution]]. We do not [[propose]] to employ our [[technique]] of dematerialization; we merely [[wish]] to invoke the [[process]] of [[accelerated]] [[time]]. It is enough that we have seen the [[Master Son|Sovereign]] live and die on [[Urantia]]; the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 hosts of heaven] would be spared the [[memory]] of [[enduring]] the [[sight]] of the slow decay of the [[human]] [[form]] of [[Creator Son|the Creator]] and Upholder of a [[universe]]. In the [[name]] of the [[celestial]] [[intelligences]] of all [[Nebadon]], I ask for a [[mandate]] giving me the [[custody]] of the [[mortal]] [[body]] of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] and empowering us to [[proceed]] with its [[immediate]] [[dissolution]]. "

189:2.1 At ten minutes past three o'clock, as the [[resurrected]] [[Jesus]] fraternized with the assembled [[morontia]] [[personalities]] from the seven [[mansion worlds]] of [[Satania]], the [[chief]] of [[archangels]]—the [[angels]] of the [[resurrection]]—approached [[Gabriel]] and asked for the [[mortal]] [[body]] of [[Jesus]]. Said the chief of the [[archangels]]: " We may not [[participate]] in the [[morontia]] [[resurrection]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal experience] of [[Michael]] our [[Master Son|sovereign]], but we would have his [[mortal]] remains put in our [[custody]] for [[immediate]] [[dissolution]]. We do not [[propose]] to employ our [[technique]] of dematerialization; we merely [[wish]] to invoke the [[process]] of [[accelerated]] [[time]]. It is enough that we have seen the [[Master Son|Sovereign]] live and die on [[Urantia]]; the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 hosts of heaven] would be spared the [[memory]] of [[enduring]] the [[sight]] of the slow decay of the [[human]] [[form]] of [[Creator Son|the Creator]] and Upholder of a [[universe]]. In the [[name]] of the [[celestial]] [[intelligences]] of all [[Nebadon]], I ask for a [[mandate]] giving me the [[custody]] of the [[mortal]] [[body]] of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] and empowering us to [[proceed]] with its [[immediate]] [[dissolution]]. "

189:2.2 And when [[Gabriel]] had conferred with the senior [[Most High]] of [[Edentia]], the [[archangel]] [[spokesman]] for the [[celestial hosts]] was given [[permission]] to make such disposition of the [[physical]] remains of [[Jesus]] as he might determine.

189:2.2 And when [[Gabriel]] had conferred with the senior [[Most High]] of [[Edentia]], the [[archangel]] [[spokesman]] for the [[celestial hosts]] was given [[permission]] to make such disposition of the [[physical]] remains of [[Jesus]] as he might determine.

189:2.3 After the [[chief]] of [[archangels]] had been granted this request, he [[summoned]] to his [[assistance]] many of his fellows, together with a numerous host of the [[representatives]] of all orders of [[celestial]] [[personalities]], and then, with the aid of the [[Urantia]] [[midwayers]], proceeded to take [[possession]] of [[Jesus]]' [[physical]] [[body]]. This [[body]] of [[death]] was a [[purely]] [[material]] [[creation]]; it was [[physical]] and [[literal]]; it could not be removed from the [[tomb]] as the [[morontia]] [[form]] of the [[resurrection]] had been able to escape the sealed [[sepulchre]]. By the aid of certain [[morontia]] auxiliary [[personalities]], the [[morontia]] [[form]] can be made at one time as of the [[spirit]] so that it can become indifferent to ordinary [[matter]], while at another time it can become [[discernible]] and contactable to [[material]] [[beings]], such as the [[mortals]] of the realm.

189:2.3 After the [[chief]] of [[archangels]] had been granted this request, he [[summoned]] to his [[assistance]] many of his fellows, together with a numerous host of the [[representatives]] of all orders of [[celestial]] [[personalities]], and then, with the aid of the [[Urantia]] [[midwayers]], proceeded to take [[possession]] of [[Jesus]]' [[physical]] [[body]]. This [[body]] of [[death]] was a [[purely]] [[material]] [[creation]]; it was [[physical]] and [[literal]]; it could not be removed from the [[tomb]] as the [[morontia]] [[form]] of the [[resurrection]] had been able to escape the sealed [[sepulchre]]. By the aid of certain [[morontia]] auxiliary [[personalities]], the [[morontia]] [[form]] can be made at one time as of the [[spirit]] so that it can become indifferent to ordinary [[matter]], while at another time it can become [[discernible]] and contactable to [[material]] [[beings]], such as the [[mortals]] of the realm.

189:2.4 As they made ready to remove the [[body]] of [[Jesus]] from the [[tomb]] [[preparatory]] to according it the [[dignified]] and [[reverent]] disposal of near-instantaneous [[dissolution]], it was assigned the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary Urantia midwayers] to roll away the stones from the entrance of the [[tomb]]. The larger of these two stones was a huge [[circular]] affair, much like a millstone, and it moved in a groove chiseled out of the rock, so that it could be rolled back and forth to open or close the [[tomb]]. When the watching Jewish guards and the Roman soldiers, in the dim light of the [[morning]], saw this huge stone begin to roll away from the entrance of the [[tomb]], apparently of its own accord—without any visible means to account for such [[motion]]—they were seized with [[fear]] and panic, and they fled in haste from the scene. The [[Jews]] fled to their [[homes]], afterward going back to report these doings to their captain at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_temple the temple]. The [[Romans]] fled to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Fortress fortress of Antonia] and reported what they had seen to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion centurion] as soon as he arrived on [[duty]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_28]

189:2.4 As they made ready to remove the [[body]] of [[Jesus]] from the [[tomb]] [[preparatory]] to according it the [[dignified]] and [[reverent]] disposal of near-instantaneous [[dissolution]], it was assigned the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary Urantia midwayers] to roll away the stones from the entrance of the [[tomb]]. The larger of these two stones was a huge [[circular]] affair, much like a millstone, and it moved in a groove chiseled out of the rock, so that it could be rolled back and forth to open or close the [[tomb]]. When the watching Jewish guards and the Roman soldiers, in the dim light of the [[morning]], saw this huge stone begin to roll away from the entrance of the [[tomb]], apparently of its own accord—without any visible means to account for such [[motion]]—they were seized with [[fear]] and panic, and they fled in haste from the scene. The [[Jews]] fled to their [[homes]], afterward going back to report these doings to their captain at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_temple the temple]. The [[Romans]] fled to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Fortress fortress of Antonia] and reported what they had seen to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion centurion] as soon as he arrived on [[duty]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_28]

189:2.5 The [[Jewish]] [[leaders]] began the sordid [[business]] of supposedly getting rid of [[Jesus]] by offering [[bribes]] to the [[traitorous]] [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]], and now, when confronted with this [[embarrassing]] situation, instead of [[thinking]] of [[punishing]] the guards who [[deserted]] their post, they resorted to bribing these guards and the [[Roman]] [[soldiers]]. They paid each of these twenty men a sum of [[money]] and instructed them to say to all: " While we [[slept]] during the nighttime, his [[disciples]] came upon us and took away the [[body]]. " And the [[Jewish]] [[leaders]] made solemn [[promises]] to the [[soldiers]] to defend them before [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilate Pilate] in case it should ever come to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_governor governor]'s [[knowledge]] that they had [[accepted]] a [[bribe]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_28]

189:2.5 The [[Jewish]] [[leaders]] began the sordid [[business]] of supposedly getting rid of [[Jesus]] by offering [[bribes]] to the [[traitorous]] [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]], and now, when confronted with this [[embarrassing]] situation, instead of [[thinking]] of [[punishing]] the guards who [[deserted]] their post, they resorted to bribing these guards and the [[Roman]] [[soldiers]]. They paid each of these twenty men a sum of [[money]] and instructed them to say to all: " While we [[slept]] during the nighttime, his [[disciples]] came upon us and took away the [[body]]. " And the [[Jewish]] [[leaders]] made solemn [[promises]] to the [[soldiers]] to defend them before [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilate Pilate] in case it should ever come to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_governor governor]'s [[knowledge]] that they had [[accepted]] a [[bribe]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_28]

189:2.6 The [[Christian]] [[belief]] in the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] has been based on the [[fact]] of the " empty tomb. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_20] It was indeed a [[fact]] that the [[tomb]] was empty, but this is not the [[truth]] of the [[resurrection]]. The [[tomb]] was truly empty when the first believers arrived, and this [[fact]], [[associated]] with that of the undoubted [[resurrection]] of [[the Master]], led to the [[formulation]] of a [[belief]] which was not true: the teaching that the [[material]] and [[mortal]] [[body]] of [[Jesus]] was raised from the [[grave]]. [[Truth]] having to do with [[spiritual]] [[realities]] and [[eternal]] [[values]] cannot always be built up by a combination of [[apparent]] [[facts]]. Although [[individual]] [[facts]] may be [[materially]] true, it does not follow that the [[association]] of a [[group]] of [[facts]] must necessarily lead to [[truthful]] [[spiritual]] conclusions.

189:2.6 The [[Christian]] [[belief]] in the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] has been based on the [[fact]] of the " empty tomb. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_20] It was indeed a [[fact]] that the [[tomb]] was empty, but this is not the [[truth]] of the [[resurrection]]. The [[tomb]] was truly empty when the first believers arrived, and this [[fact]], [[associated]] with that of the undoubted [[resurrection]] of [[the Master]], led to the [[formulation]] of a [[belief]] which was not true: the teaching that the [[material]] and [[mortal]] [[body]] of [[Jesus]] was raised from the [[grave]]. [[Truth]] having to do with [[spiritual]] [[realities]] and [[eternal]] [[values]] cannot always be built up by a combination of [[apparent]] [[facts]]. Although [[individual]] [[facts]] may be [[materially]] true, it does not follow that the [[association]] of a [[group]] of [[facts]] must necessarily lead to [[truthful]] [[spiritual]] conclusions.

189:2.7 The [[tomb]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph] was empty, not because the [[body]] of [[Jesus]] had been [[rehabilitated]] or [[resurrected]], but because the [[celestial hosts]] had been granted their request to afford it a special and [[unique]] [[dissolution]], a return of the " dust to dust, "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer#Literary_influence] without the [[intervention]] of the [[delays]] of [[time]] and without the operation of the [[ordinary]] and visible [[processes]] of [[mortal]] [[decay]] and [[material]] [[corruption]].

189:2.7 The [[tomb]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph] was empty, not because the [[body]] of [[Jesus]] had been [[rehabilitated]] or [[resurrected]], but because the [[celestial hosts]] had been granted their request to afford it a special and [[unique]] [[dissolution]], a return of the " dust to dust, "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer#Literary_influence] without the [[intervention]] of the [[delays]] of [[time]] and without the operation of the [[ordinary]] and visible [[processes]] of [[mortal]] [[decay]] and [[material]] [[corruption]].

==189:3. THE DISPENSATIONAL RESURRECTION==

==189:3. THE DISPENSATIONAL RESURRECTION==

189:3.1 A little after half past four o'clock this Sunday morning, [[Gabriel]] [[summoned]] the [[archangels]] to his side and made ready to [[inaugurate]] the general [[resurrection]] of the termination of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:3._POST-ADAMIC_MAN Adamic dispensation] on [[Urantia]]. When the vast host of the [[seraphim]] and the [[cherubim]] concerned in this great [[event]] had been marshaled in proper [[formation]], the [[morontia]] [[Michael]] [[appeared]] before [[Gabriel]], saying: " As [[the Father|my Father]] has life in himself, so has he given it to [[Creator Son|the Son]] to have life in himself. Although I have not yet fully resumed the [[exercise]] of [[universe]] [[jurisdiction]], this self-imposed [[limitation]] does not in any manner restrict the [[bestowal]] of life upon my [[sleeping]] sons; let the roll call of the [[planetary]] [[resurrection]] begin. "

189:3.1 A little after half past four o'clock this Sunday morning, [[Gabriel]] [[summoned]] the [[archangels]] to his side and made ready to [[inaugurate]] the general [[resurrection]] of the termination of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:3._POST-ADAMIC_MAN Adamic dispensation] on [[Urantia]]. When the vast host of the [[seraphim]] and the [[cherubim]] concerned in this great [[event]] had been marshaled in proper [[formation]], the [[morontia]] [[Michael]] [[appeared]] before [[Gabriel]], saying: " As [[the Father|my Father]] has life in himself, so has he given it to [[Creator Son|the Son]] to have life in himself. Although I have not yet fully resumed the [[exercise]] of [[universe]] [[jurisdiction]], this self-imposed [[limitation]] does not in any manner restrict the [[bestowal]] of life upon my [[sleeping]] sons; let the roll call of the [[planetary]] [[resurrection]] begin. "

189:3.2 The [[circuit]] of the [[archangels]] then operated for the first time from [[Urantia]]. [[Gabriel]] and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_37#37:3._THE_ARCHANGELS archangel hosts] moved to the place of the [[spiritual]] [[polarity]] of the [[planet]]; and when [[Gabriel]] gave the [[signal]], there flashed to the first of [[the system]] [[mansion worlds]] the [[voice]] of [[Gabriel]], saying: " By the [[mandate]] of [[Michael]], let the dead of a [[Urantia]] [[dispensation]] rise! " Then all the [[survivors]] of the [[human]] [[races]] of [[Urantia]] who had fallen [[asleep]] since the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74#PAPER_74:_ADAM_AND_EVE days of Adam], and who had not already gone on to [[judgment]], appeared in the [[resurrection]] halls of [[mansonia]] in readiness for [[morontia]] investiture. And in an instant of [[time]] the [[seraphim]] and their [[associates]] made ready to depart for the [[mansion worlds]]. Ordinarily these [[seraphic guardians]], onetime assigned to the [[group]] [[custody]] of these surviving [[mortals]], would have been present at the [[moment]] of their [[awaking]] in the [[resurrection]] halls of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD mansonia], but they were on this world itself at this time because of the [[necessity]] of [[Gabriel]]'s presence here in connection with the [[morontia]] [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]].

189:3.2 The [[circuit]] of the [[archangels]] then operated for the first time from [[Urantia]]. [[Gabriel]] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_37#37:3._THE_ARCHANGELS archangel hosts] moved to the place of the [[spiritual]] [[polarity]] of the [[planet]]; and when [[Gabriel]] gave the [[signal]], there flashed to the first of [[the system]] [[mansion worlds]] the [[voice]] of [[Gabriel]], saying: " By the [[mandate]] of [[Michael]], let the dead of a [[Urantia]] [[dispensation]] rise! " Then all the [[survivors]] of the [[human]] [[races]] of [[Urantia]] who had fallen [[asleep]] since the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74#PAPER_74:_ADAM_AND_EVE days of Adam], and who had not already gone on to [[judgment]], appeared in the [[resurrection]] halls of [[mansonia]] in readiness for [[morontia]] investiture. And in an instant of [[time]] the [[seraphim]] and their [[associates]] made ready to depart for the [[mansion worlds]]. Ordinarily these [[seraphic guardians]], onetime assigned to the [[group]] [[custody]] of these surviving [[mortals]], would have been present at the [[moment]] of their [[awaking]] in the [[resurrection]] halls of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD mansonia], but they were on this world itself at this time because of the [[necessity]] of [[Gabriel]]'s presence here in connection with the [[morontia]] [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]].

189:3.3 Notwithstanding that countless [[individuals]] having [[personal]] [[seraphic guardians]] and those achieving the requisite [[attainment]] of [[spiritual]] [[personality]] [[progress]] had gone on to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD mansonia] during the ages subsequent to the times of [[Adam and Eve]], and though there had been many special and millennial [[resurrections]] of [[Urantia]] sons, this was the third of the [[planetary]] roll calls, or complete [[dispensation]]al [[resurrections]]. The first occurred at the time of the arrival of the [[Planetary Prince]], the second during the time of [[Adam and Eve|Adam]], and this, the third, [[signalized]] the [[morontia]] [[resurrection]], the [[mortal]] [[transit]], of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]].

189:3.3 Notwithstanding that countless [[individuals]] having [[personal]] [[seraphic guardians]] and those achieving the requisite [[attainment]] of [[spiritual]] [[personality]] [[progress]] had gone on to [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD mansonia] during the ages subsequent to the times of [[Adam and Eve]], and though there had been many special and millennial [[resurrections]] of [[Urantia]] sons, this was the third of the [[planetary]] roll calls, or complete [[dispensation]]al [[resurrections]]. The first occurred at the time of the arrival of the [[Planetary Prince]], the second during the time of [[Adam and Eve|Adam]], and this, the third, [[signalized]] the [[morontia]] [[resurrection]], the [[mortal]] [[transit]], of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]].

189:3.4 When the [[signal]] of the [[planetary]] [[resurrection]] had been [[received]] by the [[chief]] of [[archangels]], the [[Personalized Adjuster]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] relinquished his [[authority]] over the [[celestial hosts]] assembled on [[Urantia]], turning all these sons of the [[local universe]] back to the [[jurisdiction]] of their respective commanders. And when he had done this, he departed for [[Salvington]] to register with [[Immanuel]] the completion of the [[mortal]] [[transit]] of [[Michael]]. And he was [[immediately]] followed by all the [[celestial host]] not required for [[duty]] on [[Urantia]]. But [[Gabriel]] remained on [[Urantia]] with the [[morontia]] [[Jesus]].

189:3.4 When the [[signal]] of the [[planetary]] [[resurrection]] had been [[received]] by the [[chief]] of [[archangels]], the [[Personalized Adjuster]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] relinquished his [[authority]] over the [[celestial hosts]] assembled on [[Urantia]], turning all these sons of the [[local universe]] back to the [[jurisdiction]] of their respective commanders. And when he had done this, he departed for [[Salvington]] to register with [[Immanuel]] the completion of the [[mortal]] [[transit]] of [[Michael]]. And he was [[immediately]] followed by all the [[celestial host]] not required for [[duty]] on [[Urantia]]. But [[Gabriel]] remained on [[Urantia]] with the [[morontia]] [[Jesus]].

==189:4. DISCOVERY OF THE EMPTY TOMB==

==189:4. DISCOVERY OF THE EMPTY TOMB==

189:4.1 As we approach the time of the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] on this early Sunday morning, it should be recalled that the ten [[apostles]] were [[sojourning]] at the [[home]] of [[John Mark|Elijah and Mary Mark]], where they were [[asleep]] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenacle upper chamber], resting on the very couches whereon they reclined during the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_179 last supper] with [[the Master|their Master]]. This Sunday morning they were all there assembled except [[Thomas, the Apostle|Thomas]]. Thomas was with them for a few minutes late Saturday night when they first got [[together]], but the sight of [[the apostles]], coupled with the [[thought]] of what had happened to [[Jesus]], was too much for him. He looked his [[associates]] over and [[immediately]] left the room, going to the home of Simon in Bethpage, where he [[thought]] to [[grieve]] over his troubles in [[solitude]]. [[The apostles]] all [[suffered]], not so much from [[doubt]] and [[despair]] as from [[fear]], [[grief]], and [[shame]].

189:4.1 As we approach the time of the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] on this early Sunday morning, it should be recalled that the ten [[apostles]] were [[sojourning]] at the [[home]] of [[John Mark|Elijah and Mary Mark]], where they were [[asleep]] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenacle upper chamber], resting on the very couches whereon they reclined during the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_179 last supper] with [[the Master|their Master]]. This Sunday morning they were all there assembled except [[Thomas, the Apostle|Thomas]]. Thomas was with them for a few minutes late Saturday night when they first got [[together]], but the sight of [[the apostles]], coupled with the [[thought]] of what had happened to [[Jesus]], was too much for him. He looked his [[associates]] over and [[immediately]] left the room, going to the home of Simon in Bethpage, where he [[thought]] to [[grieve]] over his troubles in [[solitude]]. [[The apostles]] all [[suffered]], not so much from [[doubt]] and [[despair]] as from [[fear]], [[grief]], and [[shame]].

189:4.2 At the [[home]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicodemus Nicodemus] there were gathered [[together]], with [[David Zebedee]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph of Arimathea], some twelve or fifteen of the more prominent of the [[Jerusalem]] [[disciples]] of [[Jesus]]. At the [[home]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph of Arimathea] there were some fifteen or twenty of the [[leading]] [[women]] [[believers]]. Only these [[women]] abode in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph]'s house, and they had kept close within during the hours of the [[Sabbath]] day and the evening after the [[Sabbath]], so that they were [[ignorant]] of the [[military]] guard on watch at the [[tomb]]; neither did they know that a second stone had been rolled in front of the [[tomb]], and that both of these stones had been placed under the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(emblem) seal] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilate Pilate].

189:4.2 At the [[home]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicodemus Nicodemus] there were gathered [[together]], with [[David Zebedee]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph of Arimathea], some twelve or fifteen of the more prominent of the [[Jerusalem]] [[disciples]] of [[Jesus]]. At the [[home]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph of Arimathea] there were some fifteen or twenty of the [[leading]] [[women]] [[believers]]. Only these [[women]] abode in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph]'s house, and they had kept close within during the hours of the [[Sabbath]] day and the evening after the [[Sabbath]], so that they were [[ignorant]] of the [[military]] guard on watch at the [[tomb]]; neither did they know that a second stone had been rolled in front of the [[tomb]], and that both of these stones had been placed under the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(emblem) seal] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilate Pilate].

189:4.3 A little before three o'clock this Sunday morning, when the first signs of day began to [[appear]] in the east, five of the [[women]] started out for the [[tomb]] of [[Jesus]]. They had prepared an [[abundance]] of special [[embalming]] lotions, and they carried many linen bandages with them. It was their [[purpose]] more thoroughly to give the [[body]] of [[Jesus]] its [[death]] [[anointing]] and more carefully to wrap it up with the new bandages.

189:4.3 A little before three o'clock this Sunday morning, when the first signs of day began to [[appear]] in the east, five of the [[women]] started out for the [[tomb]] of [[Jesus]]. They had prepared an [[abundance]] of special [[embalming]] lotions, and they carried many linen bandages with them. It was their [[purpose]] more thoroughly to give the [[body]] of [[Jesus]] its [[death]] [[anointing]] and more carefully to wrap it up with the new bandages.

189:4.4 The [[women]] who went on this [[mission]] of anointing [[Jesus]]' [[body]] were: [[Mary Magdalene]], Mary the [[mother]] of the [[Alpheus twins]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(disciple) Salome] the [[mother]] of the Zebedee brothers, [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_150#150:1._THE_WOMEN.27S_EVANGELISTIC_CORPS Joanna] the [[wife]] of Chuza, and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_150#150:1._THE_WOMEN.27S_EVANGELISTIC_CORPS Susanna] the daughter of Ezra of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria].

189:4.4 The [[women]] who went on this [[mission]] of anointing [[Jesus]]' [[body]] were: [[Mary Magdalene]], Mary the [[mother]] of the [[Alpheus twins]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(disciple) Salome] the [[mother]] of the Zebedee brothers, [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_150#150:1._THE_WOMEN.27S_EVANGELISTIC_CORPS Joanna] the [[wife]] of Chuza, and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_150#150:1._THE_WOMEN.27S_EVANGELISTIC_CORPS Susanna] the daughter of Ezra of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria].

189:4.5 It was about half past three o'clock when the five [[women]], laden with their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ointment ointments], arrived before the empty [[tomb]]. As they passed out of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_gate Damascus gate], they encountered a number of [[soldiers]] fleeing into the [[city]] more or less panic-stricken, and this caused them to pause for a few minutes; but when nothing more [[developed]], they resumed their [[journey]].

189:4.5 It was about half past three o'clock when the five [[women]], laden with their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ointment ointments], arrived before the empty [[tomb]]. As they passed out of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_gate Damascus gate], they encountered a number of [[soldiers]] fleeing into the [[city]] more or less panic-stricken, and this caused them to pause for a few minutes; but when nothing more [[developed]], they resumed their [[journey]].

189:4.9 All five of the [[women]] then sat down on the stone near the entrance and [[talked]] over the situation. It had not yet occurred to them that [[Jesus]] had been [[resurrected]]. They had been by themselves over the [[Sabbath]], and they [[conjectured]] that the [[body]] had been moved to another resting place. But when they [[pondered]] such a solution of their [[dilemma]], they were at a loss to account for the orderly arrangement of the grave cloths; how could the [[body]] have been removed since the very bandages in which it was wrapped were left in position and apparently intact on the [[burial]] shelf?

189:4.9 All five of the [[women]] then sat down on the stone near the entrance and [[talked]] over the situation. It had not yet occurred to them that [[Jesus]] had been [[resurrected]]. They had been by themselves over the [[Sabbath]], and they [[conjectured]] that the [[body]] had been moved to another resting place. But when they [[pondered]] such a solution of their [[dilemma]], they were at a loss to account for the orderly arrangement of the grave cloths; how could the [[body]] have been removed since the very bandages in which it was wrapped were left in position and apparently intact on the [[burial]] shelf?

189:4.10 As these [[women]] sat there in the early hours of the [[dawn]] of this new day, they looked to one side and [[observed]] a [[silent]] and motionless stranger. For a [[moment]] they were again [[frightened]], but [[Mary Magdalene]], rushing toward him and addressing him as if she [[thought]] he might be the caretaker of the [[garden]], said, " Where have you taken [[the Master]]? Where have they laid him? Tell us that we may go and get him. " When the stranger did not answer [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]], she began to [[weep]]. Then spoke [[Jesus]] to them, saying, " Whom do you seek? " [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]] said: " We seek for [[Jesus]] who was laid to [[rest]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph]'s [[tomb]], but he is gone. Do you know where they have taken him? " Then said [[Jesus]]: " Did not this [[Jesus]] tell you, even in [[Galilee]], that he would die, but that he would rise again? " These [[words]] startled the [[women]], but [[the Master]] was so changed that they did not yet [[recognize]] him with his back turned to the dim [[light]]. And as they [[pondered]] his words, he addressed the Magdalene with a familiar [[voice]], saying, " Mary. " And when she heard that [[word]] of well-known [[sympathy]] and [[affectionate]] greeting, she knew it was the [[voice]] of [[the Master]], and she rushed to kneel at his feet while she [[exclaimed]], " My Lord, and my Master! " And all of the other [[women]] [[recognized]] that it was [[the Master]] who stood before them in [[glorified]] [[form]], and they quickly knelt before him.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_20]

189:4.10 As these [[women]] sat there in the early hours of the [[dawn]] of this new day, they looked to one side and [[observed]] a [[silent]] and motionless stranger. For a [[moment]] they were again [[frightened]], but [[Mary Magdalene]], rushing toward him and addressing him as if she [[thought]] he might be the caretaker of the [[garden]], said, " Where have you taken [[the Master]]? Where have they laid him? Tell us that we may go and get him. " When the stranger did not answer [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]], she began to [[weep]]. Then spoke [[Jesus]] to them, saying, " Whom do you seek? " [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]] said: " We seek for [[Jesus]] who was laid to [[rest]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph]'s [[tomb]], but he is gone. Do you know where they have taken him? " Then said [[Jesus]]: " Did not this [[Jesus]] tell you, even in [[Galilee]], that he would die, but that he would rise again? " These [[words]] startled the [[women]], but [[the Master]] was so changed that they did not yet [[recognize]] him with his back turned to the dim [[light]]. And as they [[pondered]] his words, he addressed the Magdalene with a familiar [[voice]], saying, " Mary. " And when she heard that [[word]] of well-known [[sympathy]] and [[affectionate]] greeting, she knew it was the [[voice]] of [[the Master]], and she rushed to kneel at his feet while she [[exclaimed]], " My Lord, and my Master! " And all of the other [[women]] [[recognized]] that it was [[the Master]] who stood before them in [[glorified]] [[form]], and they quickly knelt before him.[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_20]

189:4.11 These [[human]] eyes were enabled to see the [[morontia]] form of [[Jesus]] because of the special ministry of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS transformers] and the [[midwayers]] in [[association]] with certain of the [[morontia]] [[personalities]] then accompanying [[Jesus]].

189:4.11 These [[human]] eyes were enabled to see the [[morontia]] form of [[Jesus]] because of the special ministry of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS transformers] and the [[midwayers]] in [[association]] with certain of the [[morontia]] [[personalities]] then accompanying [[Jesus]].

189:4.12 As [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]] sought to [[embrace]] his feet, [[Jesus]] said: " [[Touch]] me not, Mary, for I am not as you knew me in the [[flesh]]. In this [[form]] will I tarry with you for a [[season]] before I [[ascend]] to [[the Father]]. But go, all of you, now and tell my [[apostles]]—and [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]]—that I have [[Resurrection|risen]], and that you have talked with me. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_20]

189:4.12 As [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]] sought to [[embrace]] his feet, [[Jesus]] said: " [[Touch]] me not, Mary, for I am not as you knew me in the [[flesh]]. In this [[form]] will I tarry with you for a [[season]] before I [[ascend]] to [[the Father]]. But go, all of you, now and tell my [[apostles]]—and [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]]—that I have [[Resurrection|risen]], and that you have talked with me. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_20]

189:4.13 After these [[women]] had recovered from the [[shock]] of their [[amazement]], they hastened back to [[Jerusalem|the city]] and to the [[home]] of [[John Mark|Elijah Mark]], where they related to the ten [[apostles]] all that had happened to them; but [[the apostles]] were not inclined to [[believe]] them. They thought at first that the [[women]] had seen a [[vision]], but when [[Mary Magdalene]] repeated the [[words]] which [[Jesus]] had [[spoken]] to them, and when [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] heard his [[name]], he rushed out of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenacle upper chamber], followed closely by [[John, the Apostle|John]], in great haste to reach the [[tomb]] and see these things for himself.

189:4.13 After these [[women]] had recovered from the [[shock]] of their [[amazement]], they hastened back to [[Jerusalem|the city]] and to the [[home]] of [[John Mark|Elijah Mark]], where they related to the ten [[apostles]] all that had happened to them; but [[the apostles]] were not inclined to [[believe]] them. They thought at first that the [[women]] had seen a [[vision]], but when [[Mary Magdalene]] repeated the [[words]] which [[Jesus]] had [[spoken]] to them, and when [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] heard his [[name]], he rushed out of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenacle upper chamber], followed closely by [[John, the Apostle|John]], in great haste to reach the [[tomb]] and see these things for himself.

189:5.3 [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] at first suggested that the [[grave]] had been rifled, that [[enemies]] had stolen the [[body]], perhaps [[bribed]] the guards. But [[John, the Apostle|John]] reasoned that the [[grave]] would hardly have been left so orderly if the [[body]] had been [[stolen]], and he also raised the [[question]] as to how the bandages happened to be left behind, and so apparently intact. And again they both went back into the [[tomb]] more closely to [[examine]] the grave cloths. As they came out of the [[tomb]] the second time, they found [[Mary Magdalene]] returned and [[weeping]] before the entrance. [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]] had gone to [[the apostles]] believing that [[Jesus]] had risen from the [[grave]], but when they all refused to [[believe]] her report, she became downcast and [[despairing]]. She longed to go back near the [[tomb]], where she [[thought]] she had heard the familiar [[voice]] of [[Jesus]].

189:5.3 [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] at first suggested that the [[grave]] had been rifled, that [[enemies]] had stolen the [[body]], perhaps [[bribed]] the guards. But [[John, the Apostle|John]] reasoned that the [[grave]] would hardly have been left so orderly if the [[body]] had been [[stolen]], and he also raised the [[question]] as to how the bandages happened to be left behind, and so apparently intact. And again they both went back into the [[tomb]] more closely to [[examine]] the grave cloths. As they came out of the [[tomb]] the second time, they found [[Mary Magdalene]] returned and [[weeping]] before the entrance. [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]] had gone to [[the apostles]] believing that [[Jesus]] had risen from the [[grave]], but when they all refused to [[believe]] her report, she became downcast and [[despairing]]. She longed to go back near the [[tomb]], where she [[thought]] she had heard the familiar [[voice]] of [[Jesus]].

189:5.4 As [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]] lingered after [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] and [[John, the Apostle|John]] had gone, [[the Master]] again [[appeared]] to her, saying:" Be not [[doubting]]; have the [[courage]] to [[believe]] what you have seen and heard. Go back to my [[apostles]] and again tell them that I have [[Resurrection|risen]], that I will appear to them, and that presently I will go before them into [[Galilee]] as I [[promised]]. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_28]

189:5.4 As [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]] lingered after [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] and [[John, the Apostle|John]] had gone, [[the Master]] again [[appeared]] to her, saying:" Be not [[doubting]]; have the [[courage]] to [[believe]] what you have seen and heard. Go back to my [[apostles]] and again tell them that I have [[Resurrection|risen]], that I will appear to them, and that presently I will go before them into [[Galilee]] as I [[promised]]. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_28]

189:5.5 [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]] hurried back to the [[John Mark|Mark]] [[home]] and told [[the apostles]] she had again [[talked]] with [[Jesus]], but they would not [[believe]] her. But when [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] and [[John, the Apostle|John]] returned, they ceased to [[ridicule]] and became filled with [[fear]] and apprehension.

189:5.5 [[Mary Magdalene|Mary]] hurried back to the [[John Mark|Mark]] [[home]] and told [[the apostles]] she had again [[talked]] with [[Jesus]], but they would not [[believe]] her. But when [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] and [[John, the Apostle|John]] returned, they ceased to [[ridicule]] and became filled with [[fear]] and apprehension.

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