into some kind of glorious but non-bodily existence. (Think about it; if that was what Paul and the others had meant, why did they suggest it happened ‘on the third day’, rather than straight away?) People sometimes talk vaguely about Jesus being ‘raised to heaven’, but that simply isn’t what the word meant. What sort of body Jesus had, and what sort his people will have, is an important question. Paul will get to it later in the chapter. But the fact of there being a body is all-important. Paul’s