[368]He was put to death a human being. He was raised from the dead a
spirit. (1 Peter 3:18; 1 Corinthians 15:45) St. John definitely shows
that the body in which Jesus will appear is not his human body because
he says: "It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but ... we shall be
like him". (1 John 3:2) Jesus is no longer human, but divine; therefore
we could not expect human eyes to see him. He is now the express image
of Jehovah. (Hebrews 1:3) Because he is no longer human and has not a
body of flesh, but a spirit body, the apostle Paul under inspiration
wrote: "Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth
know we him no more".--2 Corinthians 5:16.
[369]After his resurrection Jesus was exalted and given a name above
every name (Philippians 2:9) and sat down at the right hand of the
Father in glory and in power. (Revelation 3:21) Of him the apostle Paul
writes: "Now the Lord is that spirit". (2 Corinthians 3:17) Jesus
explained to Nicodemus concerning a spirit, saying, "Except a man be
born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of
the spirit is spirit.... The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou
hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and
whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the spirit.
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