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seven to those indicated by John; and these were Peter and Thomas and Nathanael, and the two sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples; This then was truly the third time he appeared to these men, the eleven not yet being gathered together. For this reason John, not precisely excluding the others from the sight of the Savior, noted that after the first and second appearance, He made the third only to those named, at the sea of Galilee. And it is not unlikely that after these things he also appeared a fourth and a fifth time, and at other times and many times; wherefore John does not describe all the deeds of the Savior; for proceeding next he says, And Jesus did many other things; Therefore, after he appeared this third time to the said seven, you would not be wrong to say the fourth appearance is the one in Matthew, which he wrote was made on the mountain to the eleven. And after these, you would not be mistaken in saying that he appeared to those gathered together at the same time, both the eleven and the seventy. But Paul relates that the Savior was seen by even more than these after the resurrection, having learned this from others; "For he appeared," he says, "to Cephas, then to the twelve, then to five hundred, then to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all," he says, "to me also." Do you see how many times and to how many he appeared after the resurrection? Thus he appeared also to those hiding in Jerusalem; and before them to those with Cleopas going to Emmaus; and before all, of men to Simon, and of women to the Magdalene. Hence Luke in the Acts, since he showed himself many times to the disciples, observes, saying, that indeed for forty days, appearing to them and dwelling with them, he delivered lessons concerning the kingdom of God, and he advised them to go to Jerusalem, and there to preach the word first to the Jews; and not to depart from the city beforehand, but to wait for the promise of the Father, about which we will speak a little later.

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ἑπτὰ τοῖς ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου δεδηλωμένοις· οὗτοι δὲ ἦσαν Πέτρος καὶ Θωμᾶς καὶ Ναθαναὴλ, δύο τε οἱ υἱοὶ Ζεβεδαίου, καὶ ἄλλοι ἐκ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ δύο· τοῦτο δὴ οὖν τρίτον τούτοις ἀληθῶς ὤφθη, οὔπω ἕνδεκα συνηγμένων. ∆ιόπερ ἀκριβῶς οὐκ ἀποκλείων καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς ὁ Ἰωάννης τῆς τοῦ Σωτῆρος ὀπτασίας, ἐπεσημήνατο, μετὰ τὴν πρώτην καὶ δευτέραν ὀπτασίαν, τὴν τρίτην μόνοις τοῖς κατωνομασμένοις πεποιῆσθαι αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης τῆς Γαλιλαίας. Οὐκ ἀπεικὸς δὲ μετὰ ταῦτα καὶ τέταρτον καὶ πέμπτον, καὶ ἄλλοτε καὶ πολλάκις ὦφθαι αὐτόν· διὸ οὐδὲ περιγράφει ὁ Ἰωάννης πάσας τοῦ Σωτῆρος τὰς πράξεις· προϊὼν δὲ ἑξῆς φησι, Καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ ἐποίησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς· μετὰ γοῦν τὸ ὦφθαι αὐτὸν τοῦτο τρίτον τοῖς εἰρημένοις ἑπτὰ, τετάρτην ὀπτασίαν οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοις τὴν παρὰ τῷ Ματθαίῳ φήσας εἶναι, ἣν ἐν τῷ ὄρει τοῖς ἕνδεκα πεποιῆσθαι ἀνέγραψε. Καὶ μετὰ τούτους οὐκ ἂν σφαλείης ὁμοῦ κατὰ ταυτὸν συνηγμένοις ἅμα τοῖς ἕνδεκα καὶ τοῖς ἑβδομήκοντα αὐτὸν ὦφθαι εἰπών. Ὁ δὲ Παῦλος καὶ ἔτι τούτων πλείοσιν ἑωρᾶσθαι τὸν Σωτῆρα μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἱστορεῖ, τοῦτο παρ' ἑτέρων μαθών· «Ὤφθη γὰρ, φησὶ, Κεφᾷ, εἶτα τοῖς δώδεκα, ἔπειτα πεντακοσίοις, ἔπειτα Ἰακώβῳ, ἔπειτα τοῖς ἀποστόλοις πᾶσιν, ἔσχατον δὲ πάντων, φησὶ, κἀμοί.» Ὁρᾷς ὁσάκις καὶ ὅσοις ὤφθη μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν; Οὕτω καὶ τοῖς ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ κρυπτομένοις ὤφθη· καὶ πρὸ αὐτῶν τοῖς περὶ Κλεόπαν ἀπιοῦσιν ἐπὶ Ἐμμαοῦν· καὶ πρό γε πάντων, ἀνδρῶν μὲν Σίμωνι, γυναικῶν δὲ τῇ Μαγδαληνῇ. Ἔνθεν ὁ Λουκᾶς ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσιν, ἐπεὶ πολλάκις ἑαυτὸν ἐδείκνυ τοῖς μαθηταῖς, ἐπιτηρεῖ λέγων, ὡς ἄρα δι' ἡμερῶν τεσσαράκοντα ὀπτανόμενος αὐτοῖς καὶ συναυλιζόμενος, τὰ περὶ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ παρεδίδου μαθήματα, παρῄνει τε ὁρμᾷν εἰς τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, κἀκεῖ κηρύττειν Ἰουδαίοις πρώτοις τὸν λόγον· μηδὲ πρότερον ἀναχωρεῖν τῆς πόλεως, ἀλλὰ περιμένειν τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ Πατρὸς, περὶ ἧ; μικρὸν ὕστερον διαληψόμεθα.