As the peace and comfort of a merciful death freed Him from the pains and sorrows of mortality, He entered the paradise of God.
When He had made His soul an offering for sin, He was prepared to see His seed, according to the messianic word.
These, consisting of all the holy prophets and faithful Saints from ages past; these, comprising all who had taken upon them His name, and who, being spiritually begotten by Him, had become His sons and His daughters, even as it is with us; all these were assembled in the spirit world, there to see His face and hear His voice.
After some 38 or 40 hours—three days as the Jews measured time—our blessed Lord came to the Arimathean's tomb, where His partially embalmed body had been placed by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea.