John 6 they therefore rejected it." Jesus' response, "Does this offend you? What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? (John 6:60-61) could be interpreted as: or it could mean William Robertson Nicoll suggests that "the second interpretation gives the better sense: you will find it easier to believe I came down from heaven, when you see me returning thither". In John's Gospel, Jesus' ascension "to where he was before" takes place through His death and resurrection: the Ascension on the Mount of Olives 40 days after Jesus' resurrection is not recorded in John's Gospel.
House of the Virgin Mary Cross and the resurrection, Jesus has shown his living body, both human with soul, and angelic-spiritual, the same of the Transfiguration of Jesus in the Mount Tabor "before" his Passion and the Crucifixion: has shown it in Emmaus, then to the Doubting Thomas, and during forty days to all the twelve Apostles. After Pentecost and the Ascension, they receive the Holy Spirit in order to fulfill the role of diffusing to all the human beings what they have seen and heard by themselves. By virtue of all this, it becomes reasonable to believe that the first apostolic church has progressively