d, Edersheim (vol. 2, p. 626)
trenchantly remarks: "Not to speak of the many absurdities which this
theory involves, it really shifts--if we acquit the disciples of
complicity--the fraud upon Christ Himself." A crucified person, removed
from the cross before death and subsequently revived, could not have
walked with pierced and mangled feet on the very day of his
resuscitation, as Jesus did on the road to Emmaus. Another theory that
has had its day is that of unconscious deception on the part of those
who claimed to have seen the resurrected Christ, such persons having
been victims of subjective but unreal visions conjured up by their own
excited and imaginative condition. The independence and marked
individuality of the several recorded appearings of the Lord disprove
the vision theory. Such subjective visual illusions as are predicated by
this hypothesis, presuppose a state of expectancy on the part of those
who think they see; but all the incidents connected with the
manifestations of Jesus after His resurrection were directly opposed to
the expectations of those who were made witnesses of His resurrected
state.

The foregoing instances of false and untenable theories regarding the
resurrection of our Lord are cited as examples of the numerous abortive
attempts to explain away the greatest miracle and the most glorious fact
of history. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is attested by evidence
more conclusive than that upon which rests our acceptance of historical
events in general. Yet the testimony of our Lord's rising from the dead
is not founded on written pages. To him who seeks in faith and sincerity
shall be given an individual conviction which shall enable him to
reverently confess as exclaimed the enlightened apostle of old: "Thou
art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus, who is God the Son,
is not dead. "I know that my Redeemer liveth." (Job 19:25.)

3. Recorded Appearances of Christ Between Resurrection and Ascension.--

1. To Mary Magdalene, near the sepulchre (Mark 16:9, 10; John 20:14).

2. To other women, somewhere between the sepulchre and Jerusalem (Matt.
28:9).

3. To two disciples on the road to Emmaus (Mark 16:12; Luke 24:13).

4. To Peter, in or near Jerusalem (Luke 24:34; 1 Cor. 15:5).

5. To ten of the apostles and others at Jerusalem (Luke 24:36; John
20:19).

6. To the eleven apostles at Jerusalem (Mark 16:14; John 20:26).

7. To the apostles at the Sea of Tiberias, Galilee,