John 3:13
Jesus Came from Heaven
13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.
John 1:1-14
Word Becomes Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Acts 1:1-11
Jesus Eats With His Disciples
1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
6 So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?"
7 He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."
Luke 24:36-43
36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.
John 21:7-14
7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, “It is the Lord,” he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water. 8 The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about a hundred yards.9 When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread.
10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.” 11 So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. 12 Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.13 Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. 14 This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.
Genesis 1:26
God Says Man is to Rule Over Animals and the Other Things on Earth
26 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
Acts 2:1-13
The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost
1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. 7 Utterly amazed, they asked: "Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs-we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!" 12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, "What does this mean?"
13 Some, however, made fun of them and said, "They have had too much wine."
Jesus was the Logos, the Word of God...The Word of God became flesh and the One who sent Him from heaven to earth gave Him a physical body...And the One who became flesh walked among men...He taught among men, and the Twelve Disciples were His students and closest followers as well as His closest eyewitnesses...Jesus was fully human, if it is fair to call Him human, because He was also divine and could do miracles...Many of His miracles were healing people, but He could also walk on water...He also raised a dead person back to life in each of the gospels...He also had the ability to turn water into wine...He also could calm waves and get raging storms to settle down...And He had this great ability to break a few small pieces of bread and a fish or two -and turn those small pieces into a meal for thousands of people...Yet, in all this, He was a man with a body, that must have looked very much like a Jewish Man -which He was and is...He fit in very much as a Man in Israel...And it must have been important to God, for His reasons, to send His Son to us, in a physical body much like us, and our own bodies...
Jesus later after teaching us many things on earth, was killed on a cross...But He came back to life from His death, and lived on earth for another forty days...And St. Luke says on one occasion, while he was eating with them, He gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about...For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."...Jesus would send His Disciples the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost...
Jesus, as St. Luke says, also ate with them on occasion after He had died and resurrected...And He liked fish...He must have done this to prove that He was not pure Spirit, and retained His physical body -or maybe He wanted to prove to them that they weren't seeing things and He wasn't a ghost...Maybe He came back in bodily form after His death, because we can relate to that and to Him in a better way (since He kept the form of a Man)...And in the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, St. Luke writes that He ascended into heaven in full body form in front of His disciples...A sight for those who got to see this, would be one you would never forget...Jesus left this physical world in a physical body and went to His Spiritual World and back to His place in heaven, where He remains today...He is at the right hand of God...Jesus came from heaven and now has returned there...Jesus is truly the Man of Heaven, and the One of Heaven...
I suspect there are many who not believe that Jesus ascended to heaven in His physical body...And I also believe that there are those do not believe He ate broiled fish after His death...I suspect there are those who do not even believe He was on earth at all...But there is one thing I do believe, and that is that the physical body of man is important...I suspect that even non-believers see man as the highest form of life on earth...That man is are over tame and wild animals, fish in the sea, and the birds in the sky...I suspect that most believe man has at least two parts, mind and body...And to even some non-believers man is mind, body, and spirit -or mind, body, and soul...Some believers believe in a mind, body, soul, and spirit...And even if the non-believer does not believe in the spirit and soul parts of man -they would say that man is unique to all other plants and creatures that live and move along the earth...They probably agree that man is higher in nature than other animal and plant life...Believer's believe that this is true...I think believers and non-believers would agree that the mind and body can see, think, and somehow miraculously feel things on our inside and internally (feelings and emotions are very much a miracle, as is seeing and thinking)...And for those of us who have become rooted in Jesus, see this Spirit part, the Holy Spirit that His disciples received on the Day of Pentecost as our connection to God and His Son, and with the soul part...Two most important parts...