Time changed, for the author of John’s Gospel, when the Word of God became flesh. Since the coming of Jesus, things have not been the same. Yet at the end of his ministry, Jesus tells the disciples that he is returning to the Father and will no longer be visibly among them (14:28; 16:5, 28). In an ordinary story one might imagine the hero dying and his friends lamenting that they will not see him any longer, but in John’s Gospel there is a twist: Jesus dies, then rises and appears to his followers