We don’t really know what happened at the moment of the Ascension, just as we don’t know exactly what happened when Jesus left the tomb in which he had been buried. We do know that he was never recognized by sight, but only by voice, or in the breaking of bread, or the eating of fish.

When the women told the men that an angel had told them that Jesus was risen, no one believed them. When Peter and John saw the empty tomb for themselves, they just went away and didn’t shout aloud to the rest of the disciples and their friends what had happened.

We are not very good believers most of the time, we human beings.

from Peculiar Treasures