Apostles

and those who were with them, who said that the Lord had truly risen and appeared to Simon (Luke 24:33-34). Only Luke speaks of this appearance of the Lord to Simon Peter, and he speaks as if the Lord appeared to Peter before His appearance to the ten Apostles, but when and where He is silent about it. Judging by the order in which the Evangelist Luke narrates the story of Christ's appearance to the two disciples on their way to Emmaus, we can conclude that the Apostles themselves informed these two disciples about Christ's appearance to Simon at the time when these disciples were telling them that they had seen the Lord. Meanwhile, Peter, when the Lord appeared to the ten Apostles, not only did not strengthen their faith in the Resurrection of Christ, but together with them he took the Lord's appearance for a phantom, a spirit, and, in order to dispel his perplexity, with his own hands

touched Him (1 John 1:1). And this gives reason to ask the question: did Christ really appear to Peter on the first day after His Resurrection, and moreover before His appearance to the ten Apostles? If He had appeared to Peter before the two disciples who had returned from Emmaus came to the ten Apostles, and if Peter, seeing Jesus appear to him, had believed that He had really risen, then the Evangelist Mark, who wrote his Gospel from the words of Peter, would not have written that

the two disciples returned, and announced to the others; but they did not believe them either (Mark 16:13). And since, according to the testimony of Peter himself (through Mark), he did not believe the two disciples that Christ had risen, it must be assumed that the appearance of Jesus to Peter alone followed after His appearance to His ten Apostles, but when and where is unknown. We already know that the Evangelist Luke, although he tried to describe everything in order, did not always observe a strict sequence in his narration.

According to legend, Jesus Christ, after His Resurrection, appeared before all the Mother of God. Although the Evangelists say nothing about such a phenomenon, it is difficult, even impossible, to admit the assumption that Christ did not rejoice with His appearance the Mother of God, Whom He treated so carefully in His death throes; it is also impossible to think that Christ did not appear to Her first. The Evangelists kept silent about this appearance of Christ, probably by the desire of the Mother of God Herself, who always thanked the Lord,

that He looked upon the humility of His Servant (Luke 1:48).

Jesus' Appearance to the Eleven Apostles