Part 1

ST. JOHN 13, VERSE 33
“Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.”

At the time Jesus was talking to his disciples, he told them he would still be with them for a little longer before he would be gone. Jesus said that when he would go, the disciples would still seek him such as he said to the Jews beforehand; the place where he would be gone, the disciples also could not follow him. That is what he said to his disciples.

When ‘the little while I am with you’ ends, Jesus Christ said he would go and would no longer be with his disciples, the place where he would be then; the disciples could not follow him and go to him.

Where was Jesus going to, where the disciples couldn’t go? Was it the same place he told the Jews beforehand?

It must be… Since Jesus referred to what he said to the Jews beforehand while he was telling this to his disciples. Jesus was talking about the same time and the same place he mentioned to the Jews beforehand and now to his disciples.

ST. JOHN 13, VERSES 36 – 38
“36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. 37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. 38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.”

ST. JOHN 14, VERSES 1 & 2
“1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”

When the truthful Christ told his disciples about him leaving them in a little while, one of the disciples (his name was Simon Peter) asked Jesus where this place, of which he spoke, was. Jesus answered him and again told him, the place where he (Jesus) would go, he (Peter) could not follow him now, but he (Peter) would follow him to it afterwards. Peter asked Jesus why he could not follow him now. Jesus told him and the other disciples to believe in him, and not to let their hearts be troubled, the place he (Jesus) would go to, was up to heaven to his Father’s house, where Jesus would prepare a place for Peter and the other disciples, so they could follow him to it afterwards, not now but when the world ends.

“…Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.”

“In my Father’s house …I go to prepare a place for you.”

Jesus would be gone on his way up to heaven, to the Father, the only true God that sent him, where he could not be followed.

Same as Jesus said beforehand to the Jews.

ST. JOHN 8, VERSE 21
“33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. 34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.”

The little while Jesus told the disciples he would still be with them; was the same ‘little while’ Jesus told the Jews he would be still with them. And when this little while ends, Jesus would go and would no longer be with the Jews nor would he be with the disciples; Jesus would no longer be on earth. The place to where Jesus would be gone is up to heaven, to the only true God that sent him, where neither the Jews nor the disciples could follow him and go to.

Jesus was talking about the same time; he was talking about the same place, to the Jews beforehand and now to his disciples.

“Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.”

Now and as we discussed the time when the Jews were seeking Jesus, we need to discuss when did the disciples seek Jesus? As Jesus told his disciples, they would be seeking him too when he goes up to heaven!

“…Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come…”

“Simon Peter said … whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; … Peter said …why cannot I follow thee now? …”

“In my Father’s house … I go to prepare a place for you.”

When did the disciples seek Jesus?

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Part 2

Jesus told Peter he will not be able to follow him, but Peter was able to follow the person who the Jews arrested and crucified, step by step. Jesus didn’t lie to Peter, Jesus was up in heaven during the crucifixion.

The only time the disciples sought the truthful Christ, was from the time the Jews arrested someone thinking it was Jesus until Jesus came back to them after the crucifixion. This is in opposition to the Jews who sought Jesus until the time they arrested someone thinking he was Jesus. That is exactly what the truthful Jesus said!

ST. MATTHEW 26, VERSE 58
“But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.”

ST. MARK 14, VERSE 54
“And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.”

ST. LUCK 22, VERSES 54 & 55
“54 Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest’s house. And Peter followed afar off. 55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.”

ST. LUCK 24, VERSE 12
“Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.”

ST. JOHN 18, VERSES 15 & 16
“15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. 16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.”

That was the only time the disciples sought Jesus, they never did seek him at any other time.

According to the four Gospels, the disciples never sought Jesus between the time he told them he was leaving them soon to go up to heaven and the time the Jews arrested someone thinking it was Jesus. All during that time Jesus was with them and was on earth, where he could be followed to where he was.

According to the four Gospels, the disciples never sought Jesus between the time he came back to them after the crucifixion and the time he was lifted up to heaven at the end and in front of them. All during that time Jesus was on earth showing himself to his disciples and being with them.

But the truthful Christ said that during that time he would not be with them; that was why they would seek him. And the place where he would be they could not go to; Jesus said he would be in heaven not on earth.

“Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.”

“In my Father’s house … I go to prepare a place for you.”

So even if the disciples did seek the truthful Jesus in those times (before the Jews arrested someone thinking it is Jesus or after Jesus came back and showed himself to them after the crucifixion), it would not be the time Jesus told them about, yet we know that they did not seek him during these periods anyway.

The four Gospels ended after Jesus was lifted up to heaven in front of his disciples, and the disciples of course never did seek him after that, as they knew he was in heaven, and they saw him being lifted up in front of them.

So, Jesus could not have been telling them about the time when he was lifted up to heaven in front of them; in fact he was telling them about the time when he would go to heaven without their knowledge, and that is why they would seek him. It is also why Jesus told them to believe in him and to be sure that he would be in heaven during that time and not on earth.

Jesus would not have told them to believe him that he would be in heaven at that time, and not to let their hearts be troubled, or he would not have told them they would seek him here on earth when they would be witnessing his ascension to heaven – of course he wouldn’t have!

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father house are… I go to prepare a place for you.”

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Part 3

The disciples didn’t seek Jesus before the crucifixion, nor after it, but only from the time the Jews arrested someone thinking it was Jesus, and until Jesus came back and showed himself to them after it. Jesus didn’t lie to his disciples, Jesus was up in heaven during the crucifixion.

THE ACTS 1, VERSES 9 & 10
“9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;”

The ‘time’ Jesus described to his disciples, could only be the time from when the Jews arrested someone thinking he was Jesus, to the time Jesus came back to them after the crucifixion event took place.

The truthful Jesus Christ told his disciples he would be already gone when they would start seeking him, so at the time when the Jews arrested someone thinking he was Jesus, Jesus Christ was already gone up to God who sent him, the Jews arrested someone else thinking he was Jesus, and the disciples then started to seek Jesus thinking he was the person who had been arrested. But as Jesus truthfully said to the Jews and to his disciples, he was already up in heaven where neither the Jews nor the disciples could follow him.

“Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.”

“Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.”

Therefore we can conclude that Jesus Christ was up in heaven when the Jews arrested someone else thinking he was Jesus; he was up in heaven all during the time of the crucifixion and until he came back to his disciples after the crucifixion, and was on earth yet again.

If Jesus Christ was the one whom the Jews arrested and crucified, then the Jews were able to find him, go to where he was, and when the disciples started to seek him they were also able to follow him and be where he was as we see in the following verses, which would be the complete opposite of what Jesus truthfully told them.

ST. MARK 14, VERSES 53 & 54
“53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes. 54 And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.”

ST. JOHN 18, VERSES 15 & 16
“15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. 16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.”

If Jesus Christ was the one whom the Jews arrested and then crucified, then Simon Peter would have been able to follow Jesus to where he went, and that place would not have been to his Father’s house where he said he would prepare a place for Peter and the other disciples to follow him later; instead Jesus would have gone to Jail, which is, of course, the complete opposite of what Jesus truthfully told Peter.

ST. JOHN 13, VERSES 36 & 37
“36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. 37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.”

ST. JOHN 14, VERSES 1 & 2
“1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”

According to the four Gospels, the only time Jesus was not with his disciples after telling them he would be leaving them soon, was from the time when the Jews arrested someone else thinking he was Jesus up until Jesus came back to them after the crucifixion. And that was also the only time the disciples sought Jesus after they were told they would.

So, the truthful Jesus Christ was safe and glorified up in heaven all during the time the crucifixion took place. That is something everyone who believes in Jesus and the Bible should believe in.

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house … I go to prepare a place for you.”

And that proves Jesus Christ was never crucified!

Did Jesus tell his disciples, about him coming back to them after the crucifixion, to prove to them that it was not him who was crucified?

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Part 4

Jesus taught his disciples about the crucifixion event, how they will feel during it, where he will be, and how they will feel when they see him afterwards. Jesus taught his disciples as God commanded him, that Jesus will not be arrested nor crucified, but in heaven, lifted, saved and glorified by God.

ST. JOHN 16, VERSE 16
“A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.”

Jesus Christ confirming what he told his disciples beforehand, he told them once again that in just a little while he would be gone and they would see him not; but also in just a little while afterwards they would see him again. Jesus therefore said they would not see him during this little while because during that period he would be gone to the Father.

So Jesus again was talking about the same little while he mentioned beforehand to the disciples and before then to the Jews, which at the end of this little while he would go up to heaven where he could not be followed. But this time Jesus also told his disciples they would see him again a little while after leaving them. Jesus told them he would only go up to the Father for a very short time and then he would come back to his disciples again.

“A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.”

As we talked previously; according to the four Gospels the only time Jesus was not with his disciples was from the time the Jews arrested someone thinking he was Jesus, up to the time Jesus came back to his disciples after the crucifixion, being with them and showing himself to them.

ST. JOHN 16, VERSES 17 & 18
“17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? 18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.”

After Jesus told this to his disciples, some of the disciples said among themselves, what is this ‘little while’ which Jesus told us is when we would not see him? He said that during this period he would be gone to the Father, and afterwards we would see him again?

The truthful Christ knew that his disciples wanted to ask him about this ‘little while’ when they would not see him, and about seeing him again afterwards, so Jesus explained it to them.

ST. JOHN 16, VERSES 19 – 22
“19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I would see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.”

Jesus explained ‘this little while’ saying to his disciples that he would be up in heaven during that period and it would be very hard on them. Jesus told them; when he would leave them and go to God, the world would greatly rejoice over what was going to happen, but beforehand the disciples would weep, lament and they would be sorrowful. He also told them, their sorrow would turn suddenly into wonderful joy (when they saw him again). Jesus gave them the example of a woman in labor when her child is born, she would not remember the pain anymore and her sorrow would suddenly turn into wonderful joy.

With what time does Jesus’ detailed explanation fit?

The explanation Jesus gave to his disciples regarding the time he would be up in heaven, is a clear detailed description of the time from when the Jews arrested someone thinking he was Jesus and crucified him, up to the time the truthful Jesus Christ came back to his disciples from heaven after the crucifixion – within two days, and two nights; which is in fact ‘a little while’ as he said.

According to the four Gospels and all the books of the New Testament, the only time that can fit this explanation and description, is the time from when the arrest and crucifixion took place, and the moment Jesus came back to his disciples afterwards.

That was the only time Jesus was not with his disciples after telling them he would not be with them for a little while as we talked about previously in this section. That time was the only time the disciples wept and were sorrowful, as Jesus said they would be while he is in heaven.

ST. MARK 16, VERSES 10 & 11
“10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept. 11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.”

That time was the only time the world rejoiced over what did happen thinking it happened to Jesus Christ, the world rejoiced over arresting and crucifying someone else thinking he was Jesus as we read in the following verses.

ST. MATTHEW 26, VERSES 67 & 68
“67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, 68 Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?”

ST. MATTHEW 27, VERSES 30 & 31
“30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. 31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.”

ST. MARK 15, VERSES 17 – 20
“17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, 18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! 19 And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.”

When Jesus came back again to his disciples after the crucifixion took place and showed the disciples his untouched healthy hands and feet to prove to them he was truthful, that he overcame the world and was not crucified, the sorrow of the disciples turned suddenly into wonderful joy.

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Part 5

Jesus came back to his disciples, proving to them he was never crucified. The disciples watched him being lifted up to heaven, this time in front of them and with their full knowledge. The disciples never sought Jesus afterwards, but returned to Jerusalem with great joy that never left them, exactly as Jesus told them beforehand.

ST. LUKE 24, VERSES 36 – 41
“36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in your hearts? 39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. 40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet. 41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?”

Did that ever happen at any other time?

When Jesus was lifted up to heaven at the end and after he came back to his disciples, the disciples did not have any sorrow and they did not weep; quite the opposite in fact – they were full of joy; the kind of joy they felt when seeing Jesus again at the time he came back to them after the crucifixion. This wondrous joy never left them after that, even when they suffered, the joy never left them, just as Jesus said it would not leave them after he came back to them from heaven.

ST. LUKE 24, VERSES 50 – 53
“50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. 52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: 53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.”

THE ACTS 5, VERSES 40 & 41
“40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.”

All that never happened at any other time, which proves that the time Jesus spoke of; when he went up to the Father in heaven and stayed there ‘a little while’, is the time from when the Jews arrested someone else thinking he was Jesus and crucified him, up to the time Jesus came back to his disciples.

Jesus has not come back yet since he was lifted up to heaven in front of the disciples at the end, and the disciples are now dead a long time and as yet Jesus has not come back, but Jesus said he would come back for them in a little while, as he was leaving them in a little while too, and then they would see him again. Furthermore, as we learned they never were sorrowful or weeping or seeking him after that time.

Jesus Christ would not have told them where he was going to be during the interim period, if he was talking about the time he was to be lifted up at the end. At that time the disciples saw him being lifted up with their own eyes and knew he was going to heaven, they knew he would then stay there and they knew he would come back before the end of the world.

THE ACTS 1, VERSES 9 – 11
“9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”

The truthful Jesus was warning them about a time he would leave them and go to heaven unbeknownst to them and that was why they would be sorrowful and would weep, thinking he had been arrested by the Jews and crucified, not knowing he had been saved and glorified by God, until they saw him again, and were overjoyed knowing he had not been crucified, and had been truthful when he had told them he would ‘beat’ the world.

Jesus Christ was up in heaven where the only true God who sent him is, glorified as he was promised to be by God, Jesus Christ was up in heaven all during the time of the arrest and the crucifixion of another man; the world thought it was Jesus.

That is how Jesus did ‘beat’ the world, as God chose this great glorifying way for him to overcome a world that thought they would beat him. And the unbelievers would die in sin for not believing in Jesus and for crucifying someone else thinking they were crucifying Jesus.

ST. JOHN 16, VERSES 32 & 33
“32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

God made the world see someone else on the cross as if it was Jesus – (probably Judas as he was a disbeliever and helped the Jews with their unsuccessful efforts to catch Jesus. Probably God made the Jews catch Judas and crucify him instead). And that would be so easy on God to do, just as God made Jesus walk with some people without them seeing it was he.

ST. LUKE 24, VERSES 15 – 19
“15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. 16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. 17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? 18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? 19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:”

And that proves Jesus Christ was never crucified!

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