Where did Jesus go after the resurrection?

Answer 1

First Jesus was in the garden where the tomb was situated. He later went to Emmaus, Galilee and back to Jerusalem. There may have been other places, but these are the ones specifically mentioned. Finally, He ascended into heaven.

Answer 2

To understand modern teachings about Jesus after his resurrection, we need to look at what The Bible says. First, the four gospels which, although written anonymously some decades later, tell us how he appeared to his followers:

Mark Mark's Gospel was the first canonical gospel, written approximately 70 CE. The earliest known manuscripts of Mark do not have a resurrection narrative, beyond the young man telling the women that Jesus had risen. Later interpolators added resurrection appearances to bring this gospel more or less into line with the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

Matthew Matthew's Gospel reports an earthquake that rolled away the stone. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw the angel who caused the earthquake sitting on the stone. The women saw Jesus later while on the way to tell the disciples of their experience. Finally, the eleven disciples went to a mountain in Galilee and saw Jesus.

Luke In Luke's Gospel, the stone had already been moved when a group of women arrived, but there is no mention of an earthquake. This time, two men appeared to the women in shining garments, apparently angels. Later, Jesus appeared to two men, Cleopas and (presumably) Peter, but they did not recognise him, even after conversing with him, inviting him home, and eating dinner with him. They only assumed that he was Jesus based on his words and behaviour, but then he vanished out of their sight. At his next appearance, Jesus went to some lengths to assure them that he really was Jesus, showing the disciples his wounds, and finally being drawn up into heaven. All this happened in and near Jerusalem, not in Galilee.

John In John's Gospel, only Mary Magdalene went to the sepulchre and saw the stone moved. Then came 'the disciple whom Jesus loved' and Peter, who went in and saw only the linen clothes and the napkin. Next 'the disciple whom Jesus loved' went in, saw and believed. Only after they left did Mary see two angels in the sepulchre. Mary afterwards saw Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jesus, supposing that he was the gardener. The next two appearances are quite similar to a single appearance in Luke's Gospel except, as Elaine Pagels points out in Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, the account seems intended to disadvantage the disciple Thomas, by causing him to miss the blessing of the Holy Spirit and then appear to doubt that it was Jesus that he saw [Pagels identifies a thread of anti-Thomas narrative in John's Gospel.]. Finally, Jesus appeared to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberius but, although 'the disciple whom Jesus loved' quickly identified him, none of them dared to ask who he was, presumably meaning that his identity was still not obvious to them all.

Paul

We also need to look at Paul's epistles, written perhaps 20 years before the first gospel.

Some scholars say there is nothing in the epistles that demonstrates that Paul knew Jesus to be a man who lived on earth in the recent past, rather than a spiritual being. Even the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus need not have taken place on earth, and have parallels in the spiritual death and resurrection of pagan gods, particularly sun gods. In 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, Paul said that Jesus died and was buried, rose again according to the scriptures, then was seen by Cephas, then the twelve, then by more than 500, most of whom were still alive, then by James and all the apostles, and finally by himself. Not only is this account dramatically different to that in any of the gospels, but Paul saw no difference between the appearances to the others and the merely spiritual appearance to himself. In other words, Jesus may have appeared only as a vision.

Modern teachings about the resurrection of Jesus take something from each of the above.

Answer 3

According to the Bible, after his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples multiple times over a period of 40 days before ascending into heaven in the presence of his disciples. The Bible states that he is seated at the right hand of God the Father in heaven.