After Christ’s resurrection, “He showed Himself alive by many infallible proofs, being seen of “the Apostles forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3). Jesus Himself, at the very beginning of those forty days, had opened the Apostles’ understanding, enabling them to “understand the Scriptures” (Luke 24:45). On the day of Christ’s ascension, at the concl...