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I am not sure where you got the idea that Jesus was on earth for only 40 days. He was born in Bethlehem and was about 30 when he began his public ministry which lasted 3 years. There is a reference to Jesus being tempted in the wilderness for 40 days,but obviously he was on earth much longer than that.
IMPROVEMENT - Actually the question refers to when Jesus came back from the dead and lived on earth for 40 days until he ascended to heaven. Why only 40 days? Who knows but the number 40 appears a whole lot in The Bible.
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∙ 12y agoTo prove/show himself to the apostles so they could witness to the fact that he had risen and to teach the all things. He also advised them the stay put until the father gave them the holy spirit to indwell "in" them.
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∙ 13y agoTo empower His disciples, because they were about to lose their faith. And then if they lost their faith, they wouldn't have started to preach the word of GOD.
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What was Jesus' going to heaven called?
His ascension into Heaven. This was 40 days after His resurrection from the dead.
How many days between death and when Jesus actually goes to heaven?
Jesus stayed 40 days on Earth after his resurrection before ascending to Heaven
Where did Jesus go after his death but before going to the tomb?
He didn't go anywhere HE was dead. after three days His Father Jehovah resurrected Him to spirit life. He stood on earth for about 40 days appearing to His disciples at various times and went up to heaven to go before His Father.
How long did Jesus live after the resurrection before he went to heaven?
According to Acts 1:1-3, Jesus instructed the apostles for forty days between the resurrection and His ascension.
Where did Thomas go when Jesus went to heaven?
In Luke's Gospel, Jesus went to heaven on the evening following his resurrection. In Acts of the Apostles, Jesus went to heaven forty days after his resurrection. In neither case, does it state where Thomas went.
Is the ascension of Jesus before or after the Easter?
The Ascension of Jesus Christ takes place many days after His ressurection, or 'Easter'. According to the Bible He was seen by many people, including His disciples during the 40 days after His ressurection. At the end of the 40 days He ascended to Heaven in full view of the disciples.
How many times did Jesus ascend into heaven after being raised from the dead?
According to Christian belief, Jesus ascended into heaven once, 40 days after his resurrection. This event is known as the Ascension and is celebrated by Christians as a significant event in the life of Jesus.
What did Jesus do the days he was in the grave?
While Jesus' body was in the grave, his spirit was in heaven. Luke 23:43 reads, "And [Jesus] said to [the criminal], "Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise." (NASB) The word "today" implies that Jesus was going to be in Paradise that very day, directly after his death.
Jesus returned to heaven when?
On the Feast of the Ascension customarily dated forty days after the resurrection.
How many days after Jesus ascended to heaven did the Holy Spirit come?
Jesus remained on the Earth for 40 days after His resurrection. He then ascended into Heaven. Ten days later, on Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles and after repentence, upon those who were gathered there.
Why do you think jesus waited with the disciples forty days after his resurrection before going to heaven?
A:It is unclear just when Jesus did ascend to heaven, if this is historically correct. Acts of the Apostles tells us that he ascended after forty days, during which he was seen by many (1:3). On this account, he could have chosen to wait until enough people had seen him to prove his resurrection was real. However, Luke's Gospel, written by the same author but somewhat earlier, says that Jesus ascended to heaven on the evening of the day of his resurrection (24:51). Paul, in his epistles, seems to have believed that the resurrection and the ascension to heaven were one and the same event - in other words, that Jesus was resurrected spiritually and that there was no physical resurrection. Matthew and Mark do not mention an ascension to heaven, and Matthew's account of the appearance of the risen Jesus to the disciples seems to rule out the ascension in Acts as well as that in Luke. On these accounts we can not say that Jesus waited forty days, or even that he ascended bodily to heaven at all.
How many days does Jesus stay on earth after his resurrection?
A:The author of Luke's Gospel and Acts of the Apostles is the author of the notion that Jesus was taken up bodily to heaven. Luke 24:51 says that Jesus was taken up bodily to heaven on the evening of his resurrection. Acts 1:9, written some time later, says that Jesus was taken bodily to heaven forty days after the resurrection.The other three gospels said nothing of Jesus physically leaving earth and rising up to heaven. However, the 'Long Ending' of Mark (verses 16:9-20), added long after the Gospel was written, was more or less written around Luke's ending, so that verse 16:19 says that he was taken up bodily to heaven, apparently on the evening of his resurrection. (Mark's Gospel originally ended at verse 16:8.)
