presence of them all, ascended to heaven. The manner in which the Jewish Sanhedrim accounted for the absence of our Lord’s body from the sepulcher is, that “his disciples came by night and stole him away,” while the Roman soldiers were sleeping. As we have no other account, we are warranted in the conclusion that the Pharisees had nothing but this to oppose to the positive testimony of the disciples. But it must be seen that in this attempt they fell far below their usual subtilty, for the story