Appearances to the Apostles and Other Leaders

191:6.1While the eleven apos­tles were on the way to Gal­i­lee, draw­ing near their jour­ney’s end, on Tues­day evening, April 18, at about half past eight o’clock, Je­sus ap­peared to Ro­dan and some eighty other be­liev­ers, in Alexan­dria. This was the Mas­ter’s twelfth ap­pear­ance in mor­ontia form. Je­sus ap­peared be­fore these Greeks and Jews at the con­clu­sion of the re­port of David’s mes­sen­ger re­gard­ing the cru­ci­fix­ion. This mes­sen­ger, be­ing the fifth in the Je­ru­sa­lem-Alexan­dria re­lay of run­ners, had ar­rived in Alexan­dria late that af­ter­noon, and when he had de­liv­ered his mes­sage to Ro­dan, it was de­cided to call the be­liev­ers to­gether to re­ceive this tragic word from the mes­sen­ger him­self. At about eight o’clock, the mes­sen­ger, Nathan of Busiris, came be­fore this group and told them in de­tail all that had been told him by the pre­ced­ing run­ner. Nathan ended his touch­ing recital with these words: “But David, who sends us this word, re­ports that the Mas­ter, in fore­telling his death, de­clared that he would rise again.” Even as Nathan spoke, the mor­ontia Mas­ter ap­peared there in full view of all. And when Nathan sat down, Je­sus said:

191:6.2“Peace be upon you. That which my Fa­ther sent me into the world to es­tab­lish be­longs not to a race, a na­tion, nor to a spe­cial group of teach­ers or preach­ers. This gospel of the king­dom be­longs to both Jew and gen­tile, to rich and poor, to free and bond, to male and fe­male, even to the lit­tle chil­dren. And you are all to pro­claim this gospel of love and truth by the lives which you live in the flesh. You shall love one an­other with a new and startling af­fec­tion, even as I have loved you. You will serve man­kind with a new and amaz­ing de­vo­tion, even as I have served you. And when men see you so love them, and when they be­hold how fer­vently you serve them, they will per­ceive that you have be­come faith-fel­lows of the king­dom of heaven, and they will fol­low af­ter the Spirit of Truth which they see in your lives, to the find­ing of eter­nal sal­va­tion.

191:6.3“As the Fa­ther sent me into this world, even so now send I you. You are all called to carry the good news to those who sit in dark­ness. This gospel of the king­dom be­longs to all who be­lieve it; it shall not be com­mit­ted to the cus­tody of mere priests. Soon will the Spirit of Truth come upon you, and he shall lead you into all truth. Go you, there­fore, into all the world preach­ing this gospel, and lo, I am with you al­ways, even to the end of the ages.”

191:6.4When the Mas­ter had so spo­ken, he van­ished from their sight. All that night these be­liev­ers re­mained there to­gether re­count­ing their ex­pe­ri­ences as king­dom be­liev­ers and lis­ten­ing to the many words of Ro­dan and his as­so­ciates. And they all be­lieved that Je­sus had risen from the dead. Imag­ine the sur­prise of David’s her­ald of the res­ur­rec­tion, who ar­rived the sec­ond day af­ter this, when they replied to his an­nounce­ment, say­ing: “Yes, we know, for we have seen him. He ap­peared to us day be­fore yes­ter­day.”