In this chapter, we have a short account of the resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus: and the joys and triumphs which it furnished all believers with, will be very acceptable to those who sympathised and suffered with Christ in the foregoing chapters. Here is, I.

Never was there such a sabbath since the sabbath was first instituted as this was, which the first words of this chapter tell us was now past; during all this sabbath our Lord Jesus lay in the grave.

We have here a very short account of two of Christ’s appearances, and the little credit which the report of them gained with the disciples. I. He appeared to Mary Magdalene, to her first in the garden, which we have a particular narrative of, John 20:14.

Here is, I. The conviction which Christ gave his apostles of the truth of his resurrection ; He appeared to them himself, when they were all together, as they sat at meat, which gave him an opportunity to eat and drink with them, for their full satisfaction; see Acts 10:41.

Here is, 1. Christ welcomed into the upper world : After the Lord had spoken what he had to say to his disciples, he went up into heaven, in a cloud; which we have a particular account of , and he had not only an admission, but an abundant entrance, into his kingdom there; he was received up,…