Luke 24:35–49

³⁵The two then explained to them what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized the Lord when he broke the bread.

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

³⁶While the two were telling them this, suddenly the Lord himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”^f

³⁷They were terrified, thinking that they were seeing a ghost. ³⁸But he said to them, “Why are you alarmed? Why are these doubts coming up in your minds? ³⁹Look at my hands and my feet, and see that it is I myself. Feel me, and you will know, for a ghost doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you can see I have.”

⁴⁰He said this and showed them his hands and his feet.^{g 41}They still could not believe, they were so full of joy and wonder; so he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” ⁴²They gave him a piece of cooked fish, ⁴³which he took and ate in their presence.

⁴⁴Then he said to them, “These are the very things I told you about while I was still with you: everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the writings of the prophets, and the Psalms had to come true.”

⁴⁵Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, ⁴⁶and said to them, “This is what is written: the Messiah must suffer and must rise from death three days later, ⁴⁷and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem. ⁴⁸You are witnesses of these things. ^49*And I myself will send upon you what my Father has promised. But you must wait in the city until the power from above comes down upon you.”