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fact, explain it by the absurd libel that the disciples stole the body. Everything is remarkably definite about this wonderful Christian record. The grave clothes in the Tomb were carefully described-the napkin was in a place by itself, separate from the rest of the bandages. Jesus' appearances, too, were both definite and illusive. He appeared and disappeared. They saw Him and recognized Him; and yet while they were communing with Him He disappeared from before their eyes. He appeared, also in different forms, and sometimes they were slow to recognize Him, experiencing something of surprise, wanting to, and yet fearing to ask questions (Luke 24:16, John 21:12). Jes us' last manifestation before the Ascension was to a considerable group of His followers. There were a hundred and twenty of them. He walked with them up the slope of the Mount of Olives, and to the neighborhood of Bethany. Olivet is one of the highest mountains in Palestine. It tops Mount Zion, overlooking Jerusalem; and from this vantage point practically every scene of Jes us' life lay, as it were, clustered about His feet. Bethlehem, where He was born, was to the west, a little south of Jerusalem. Nazareth, where He grew to manhood, was in the north, a low hill on the edge of the valley of Esdraelon, definitely east of Carmel. The Lake 路of Galilee with its little ring of cities, where so much of His public ministry had been enacted, lay up the Jordan valley. Farther north was the snow capped peak of Hermon, on which He had been transfigured. Golgotha and its mysteri-