23.  A witness to the resurrection of Jesus is Tabitha also, who was in His name raised from the dead Acts ix. 41.; for how shall we disbelieve that Christ is risen, when even His Name raised the dead?  The sea also bears witness to the resurrection of Jesus, as thou hast heard before See § 17, above..  The drought of fishes also testifies, and the fire of coals there, and the fish laid thereon.  Peter also bears witness, who had erst denied Him thrice, and who then thrice confessed Him; and was commanded to feed His spiritual νοητά. sheep.  To this day stands Mount Olivet, still to the eyes of the faithful all but displaying Him Who ascended on a cloud, and the heavenly gate of His ascension.  For from heaven He descended to Bethlehem, but to heaven He ascended from the Mount of Olives St. Luke (xxiv. 50) describes the Ascension as taking place at Bethany, but the tradition, which Cyril follows, had long since fixed the scene on the summit of the Mount of Olives, a mile nearer to Jerusalem; and here the Empress Helena had built the Church of the Ascension (Eusebius, Life of Constantine, III. 43; Demonstr. Evang. VI. xviii. 26).  There is nothing in Cyril’s language to warrant the Benedictine Editor’s suggestion that he alludes to the legend, according to which the marks of Christ’s feet were indelibly impressed on the spot from which He ascended.  In the next generation St. Augustine seems to countenance the miraculous story (In Joh. Evang. Tract xlvii.):  “There are His footsteps, now adored, where last He stood, and whence He ascended into heaven.”  The supposed trace of one foot is still shewn on Mount Olivet; “the other having been removed by the Turks is now to be found in the Chapel of S. Thecla, which is in the Patriarch’s Palace” (Jerusalem Ed.).  Compare Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, c. xiv.; Dictionary of Bible, Olives Mount of.; at the former place beginning His conflicts among men, but in the latter, crowned after them.  Thou hast therefore many witnesses; thou hast this very place of the Resurrection; thou hast also the place of the Ascension towards the east; thou hast also for witnesses the Angels which there bore testimony; and the cloud on which He went up, and the disciples who came down from that place.