the same wounds that he had suffered from his ordeal on the Cross. After his wounds had sufficiently healed Jesus left the tomb and met some of his disciples and had his food with them and walked from Jerusalem to Galilee. In his post-crucifixion appearances, Jesus left the tomb in the darkness of night ; he appears to have been moving away from the source of danger; he showed himself only to his disciples, people whom he trusted and not the general public; and met them under the cover of darkness at night. This behaviour is uncharacteristic of one who had just miraculously succeeded in defying death at the hands of his enemies, having been given a new eternal life with an immortal physical body, and is more consistent with one who had just survived it and was avoiding their (that is both the government agencies and the public) notice lest he be recaptured. Jesus stated that he was sent only for the "lost sheep of the house of Israel" and prophesied that he would go to seek out the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel (residing beyond the Palestine region) . The Jews of Jesus's time believed that the Lost Tribes of Israel had become dispersed in different lands. When Joseph requested Jesus' body from the cross , Pilate asked a centurion if Jesus was already dead . The centurion confirmed that Jesus was already dead . This centurion was a believer that Jesus was the son of God . There are no accounts in the gospel of Jesus ascending into the heavens, aside from accounts that were absent from the earliest written gospels. Quranic sources Ahmadiyyas state that there are at least 30 verses of the Quran that suggest that Jesus did not ascend to Heaven but instead died a natural death on Earth. The verses in Chapter Al-Nisa (4:157-158) indicate that Jesus did not die on the Cross - but rather that God had "raised" Jesus unto God Himself (not into heaven). As the Quran speaks of God being Omnipresent in the Earth and in the hearts of mankind, God's existence is not to be misconstrued as being confined to the Heavens alone, making any bodily movement towards God impossible. Ahmadis interpret the Arabic word raised in these verses to mean "exalted". In other words, Jesus' spiritual rank and status was raised to come closer to God as