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"For I am not yet ASCENDED unto my Father." (HOLY BIBLE) John 20:17She is not blind. She can see the man standing there before her. What does he meanby "not yet ascended" — GONE UP — when he was DOWN right there? He is, in fact,telling her that he is not RESURRECTED from the DEAD. In the language of the Jew, inthe idiom of the Jew, he is saying: "I AM NOT DEAD YETl" — He is saying: "I AM ALIVE!""And they (the disciples), when they heard that he was ALIVE, and had been seenby her (Mary Magdalene),they BELIEVED NOT."(HOLY BIBLE) Mark 16:11CHAPTER 12DISCIPLES DISBELIEVEDJOURNEY TO EMMAUSThat very day, on the way to Emmaus, Jesus joins two of his disciples and discourseswith them for 5 miles without being recognised by them! What a perfect masquerade!On reaching their destination, the disciples persuade the Master to join them for ameal."And it came to pass, as he sat EATING with them, he took bread and blessed it,and broke it, and gave it to them"(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 24:30By the manner in which he brake bread (meaning the way he blessed it), "their eyeswere opened". Did they walk from Jerusalem to Emmaus with closed eyes? No! Weare being told that the disciples recognised him only at that juncture. Luke continueswith his story, that when they recognised him, "he vanished out of sight". Did he dothe Indian "Rope Trick"? Please don't be ridiculous! What it means is that he wentaway. He went out of their sight.INCREDIBLE SCEPTICISMFull of excitement, the two disciples rushed up to that upper room, where the otherdisciples were:-"And they went and told it unto the residue (of the disciples), NEITHER BELEIVEDthey them" (HOLY BIBLE) Mark 16:13What is wrong with these disciples of Jesus? Why are they reluctant to believe? Whatis their difficulty? The problem is that they are confronted with evidence that Jesus isALIVE! Not resurrected (i.e. not spiritualised), but evidence that he is the samephysical Jesus, flesh and bones as any one of them! — Eating food! In disguise — butnot a spirit and not a ghost. This is what they could not believe. If they were told that