Note 28 — Chapter IX
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In the Acts of John the Christ spirit which had been resident in Jesus comes to John after he has fled to a cave on the Mount of Olives from the posse that arrested the Lord. The sweet voice of the invisible Christ informs him there that the blinded multitude below had tortured a mere bodily shape which they took to be Christ, "while I stood by and laughed." In the Gospel of Peter Jesus hung upon the cross "as one who feels no pain" and was "taken up" before the end.