Acts 1:3

@fmf said
And yet, strangely, no account of those days, nothing about his "many appearances", nothing about the supposed "many convincing proofs", no quotes of what he is said to have "spoken". Very strange.

You were given a list; even at the end of John's gospel, He said Jesus did many more things, but what was written down was so we could believe. We were given what we needed; we do with it as we will.

@kellyjay said
You were given a list; even at the end of John's gospel, He said Jesus did many more things, but what was written down was so we could believe. We were given what we needed; we do with it as we will.

I saw the list. Were the "many proofs" and the "many appearances" and the many things "spoken" and the events of those 40 days simply not important enough for an account of them to be written? It rather reminds me, in a way, of the claim that 500 people witnessed the risen Jesus, and also the story about the tombs of countless people in a cemetery were opened and they then went into Jerusalem.

John 20:11-13 to Mary Magadelene
John 20:19-25 to the disciples minus Thomas
John 20:26-31 to the disciples including Thomas (after 8 days)
John 21:1-14 to the disciples who had gone back to fishing.
Luke 24:13-35 to two dis ...[text shortened]... o disciples
Mark 16:14-18 to the 11 disciples
Probably also Matt. 28:9 to the women

These were not during the 40 days ?

During what other time span are did these events happen?
I don't think it is strange tht it is not exhaustively described day by day each.

Forty is number in the Bible often representing a period of trial.
We have 40 days of the flood yet not a description of each day.
We have 40 years of Moses in the wilderness with a short sketch of his doings then.
We have 40 years of Israel's wandering in the wilderness with not each year described.
We have Elijah fleeing for 40 days with only mention of a portion of his ordeal.

You could argue that "Well there were ONLY those instances mentioned."
But actually even before His death and resurrection He taught them lessons about
Him knowing their whereabouts and what was in their hearts and in the hearts of
men because of His omniscience as God-man.

At any rate I have no doubt that Jesus used the 40 days to prepare them for the long run and not the short run of the church age which they were about to lay the foundastion of.

@sonship said

John 20:11-13 to Mary Magadelene
John 20:19-25 to the disciples minus Thomas
John 20:26-31 to the disciples including Thomas (after 8 days)
John 21:1-14 to the disciples who had gone back to fishing.
Luke 24:13-35 to two dis o disciples
Mark 16:14-18 to the 11 disciples
Probably also Matt. 28:9 to the women

These were not during the 40 days ?

...[text shortened]... he long run and not the short run of the church age which they were about to lay the foundastion of.

No account of those 40 days, though, I note, as I said.

@fmf said
No account of those 40 days, though, I note, as I said.

There were accounts written about what He did and said after He rose from the dead; you have nothing to stand on. Even after the 40 days, there were accounts.

@kellyjay said
There were accounts written about what He did and said after He rose from the dead; you have nothing to stand on. Even after the 40 days, there were accounts.

Strange that there is no account of these 40 days, though, aside from Acts 1:3. All very odd.

@fmf said
Strange that there is no account of these 40 days, though, aside from Acts 1:3. All very odd.

Well, I don't find it odd, and since there were accounts of things done after He rose from the dead, the only thing lacking your strange and odd mystery is someone calling out the days. Not much of a mystery to me, having Jesus rise from the dead and appear to a few or hundreds of people simultaneously is something hard to deny by many, including you do.

@kellyjay said
Well, I don't find it odd, and since there were accounts of things done after He rose from the dead, the only thing lacking your strange and odd mystery is someone calling out the days. Not much of a mystery to me, having Jesus rise from the dead and appear to a few or hundreds of people simultaneously is something hard to deny by many, including you do.

What evidence is there he "...appeared to a few hundred people"?

@fmf said
What evidence is there he "...appeared to a few hundred people"?

1 Corinthians 15:6
Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.