But, of course, we must realize that in another sense this unbelief is not astonishing at all. For what happened here to these apostles was simply a repetition of what had happened to our blessed Lord Himself. If you read the four Gospels, you will find the same astonishing reaction. You look at the Son of God, you see what He did, you hear what He said, and yet you see the antipathy that He aroused—the opposition, the bitterness, and the rejection. The end of it all was that the leaders and the