What did Jesus speak to the apostles about during the forty days after His resurrection?
Jesus spoke to the chosen apostles, especially the eleven remaining after Judas, about the Kingdom. During the forty days between His resurrection and ascension, He instructed them concerning the Kingdom of God, giving commandments through the Holy Spirit and presenting many infallible proofs of His resurrection.
Les explains that after His passion—His death, burial, and resurrection—Jesus showed Himself alive to the eleven by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days. During this period between His resurrection and ascension, He spoke to them especially about the Kingdom. Les emphasizes there is only one Kingdom in Scripture: the Kingdom to be set upon this earth, where Christ will rule as King of kings and Lord of lords. Believers are already citizens of that Kingdom, now in heaven, and have been translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son (Colossians 1). Christ is King, though He is not King of the Church; He is the Head of the Body, and we are members of that Kingdom. Jesus' forty-day instruction concerned the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
More Questions
What time period are the forty days in Acts 1:3?
The forty days in Acts 1:3 are the time between Jesus' resurrection and His ascension.
Who did Jesus spend the forty days after his resurrection with?
After his resurrection, Jesus spent forty days in his resurrection body with the eleven disciples because they had not yet chosen the twelfth one.