 Through the accounts of St. Matthew and of St. Mark, we know that Jesus told the apostles to leave right away for Galilee, where they were to behold him glorified. Why then did they stay eight more days in Jerusalem when there was nothing to keep them there? Perhaps they did not want to go without Thomas, for whom they began to search immediately. They must have sought to convince him in a thousand different ways that the Master would again be awaiting them beside the Sea of Tiberias.