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# What if the answer to the question "why did Christ appear only to Mary Magdalene, the myrrh-bearing women, the apostles, the disciples and more than 500 brethren, and not to everyone at all, in order to prove His Resurrection" is already given in the para
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- Published: 2026-07-10T16:53:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:40.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Books, Observations

> and beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.  
> Then he said: I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house,  
> for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.  
> Abraham saith unto him: They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.  
> And he said: Nay, father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.  
> And he said unto him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.