#12661 What Happened After the Resurrection? - Steve Ray
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
How many times did Jesus appear after His Resurrection—and where did these appearances take place? In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Catholic Answers apologists walk through the key post-Resurrection appearances of Christ, from the Upper Room to the road to Emmaus and beyond. They explain what happened during the 40 days leading up to the Ascension, the significance of Jesus appearing to the apostles, and how these encounters strengthen the case for the Resurrection. The discussion also covers the Ascension from the Mount of Olives and Christ’s later appearance to St. Paul on the road to Damascus. A clear and compelling look at one of the most important periods in Christian history.
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Questions Covered:
- 04:45 – In the Bible, how many times did Jesus appear between the Resurrection and the Ascension?
- 16:55 – Where did he physically appear during the 40 days?
- 29:00 – What happened when he appeared in the Upper Room?
- 36:12 – Mount of Olives and the Ascension.
- 44:20 – Appearing to Paul on the Road to Damascus.
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| 0:32.6 | Happy Easter to you. |
| 0:34.1 | The Lord is risen and this is the most joyful week of the year. We are in the most |
| 0:39.4 | joyful week of the year. We're in what's called the octave of Easter. I don't know how it, |
| 0:45.0 | I really don't know how it is in other places, but if you're Catholic, you get to say, |
| 0:48.6 | happy Easter all the way till next Sunday, then we have the feast of the divine mercy and indulgence that comes |
| 0:57.9 | with the divine mercy, but mostly we're just happy and joyful this week. We're saying |
| 1:02.6 | ala-louya again at Mass. We haven't been saying hallelujah for a while, and the reason we say |
| 1:09.8 | allelujah is because the Lord is risen. And what does that |
| 1:12.3 | mean that the Lord is risen? Well, it means that it's true. Everything that he claimed about |
| 1:18.4 | himself, everything that he promised is true. This is his vindication. This is the sign. His rising |
| 1:24.5 | from the dead is the sign of our own eternal life, that his invitation to us, |
| 1:29.4 | his promise to us of eternal life, if we would be his, is all true. |
| 1:35.5 | And now we live in the joy of knowing that. |
| 1:39.6 | Life is full of drama, but in many ways the main drama is over. |
| 1:43.9 | The drama of the loss of God, the death of God, the killing of God is over. |
| 1:49.8 | And now the gates of heaven are open, so to speak, and we can be joyful about that. |
| 1:55.4 | All we do, all we need to do is cling to him. |
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