Luke 24:40

Bible in Basic English

And when he had said this, he let them see his hands and his feet.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Having said this, he showed them his hands and feet.

King James Version (1611)
And when hee had thus spoken, hee shewed them his handes and his feete.

King James Version
And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.

English Standard Version
And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

New American Standard Bible
And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.

New Century Version
After Jesus said this, he showed them his hands and feet.

Amplified Bible
After saying this, He showed them His hands and His feet.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.

Legacy Standard Bible
And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.

Berean Standard Bible
And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and feet.

Contemporary English Version
After Jesus said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Complete Jewish Bible
As he said this, he showed them his hands and feet.

Darby Translation
And having said this he shewed them his hands and his feet.

Easy-to-Read Version
After Jesus told them this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and feete.

George Lamsa Translation
When he said these things, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Good News Translation
He said this and showed them his hands and his feet.

Lexham English Bible
And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Literal Translation
And saying this, He showed them His hands and feet.

American Standard Version
And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Hebrew Names Version
When he had said this, he shown them his hands and his feet.

International Standard Version
After he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.[fn]

Etheridge Translation
And while these words he spake, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Murdock Translation
And as he said thus, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his handes and his feete.

English Revised Version
And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and his feet.

World English Bible
When he had said this, he shown them his hands and his feet.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And having spoken this, he shewed them his hands and his feet.

Weymouth's New Testament
And then He showed them His hands and His feet.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he hadde seid this thing, he schewide hoondis and feet to hem.

Update Bible Version
And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when he had thus spoken, he showed them [his] hands and [his] feet.

New English Translation
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

New King James Version
When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. [fn]

New Living Translation
As he spoke, he showed them his hands and his feet.

New Life Bible
When Jesus had said this, He showed them His hands and feet.

New Revised Standard
And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and feet.

Revised Standard Version
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Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And when he had thus spoken he shewed them his hondes and his fete.

Young's Literal Translation
And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan he had thus spoke, he shewed the his hodes and his fete.

Mace New Testament (1729)
all the while holding out his hands and his feet, as he was speaking.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus held out his hands and put his foot out so they could see.

Contextual Overview

³⁶ And while they were saying these things, he himself was among them, and said to them, Peace be with you! ³⁷ But they were full of fear, being of the opinion that they were seeing a spirit. ³⁸ And he said to them, Why are you troubled, and why are your hearts full of doubt? ³⁹ See; my hands and my feet: it is I myself; put your hands on me and make certain; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have. ⁴⁰ And when he had said this, he let them see his hands and his feet. ⁴¹ And because, for joy and wonder, they were still in doubt, he said to them, Have you any food here? ⁴² And they gave him a bit of cooked fish. ⁴³ And before their eyes he took a meal. ⁴⁴ And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect. ⁴⁵ Then he made the holy Writings clear to their minds.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: John 20:20 - he showed

Cross-References

Genesis 5:22
And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:24
And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

Genesis 24:7
The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

Genesis 48:15
And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

Exodus 23:20
See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.

Exodus 33:2
And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:

1 Kings 2:3
And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,

1 Kings 8:23
Said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on the earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he had thus spoken,.... And put them into a method of satisfying themselves by their senses:

he showed them his hands and his feet; that is, he held them forth to be seen and handled by them, which no doubt they did; and which were the infallible proofs by which he showed himself alive to them after his passion; and by which they knew the truth of his incarnation, or that he assumed a true and real body, and of the resurrection of the same body; see Acts 1:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold my hands ... - Jesus proceeds to give them evidence that he was truly the same person that had been crucified. He first showed them his hands and his feet - still, pierced, and with the wounds made by the nails still open. Compare John 20:27. He told them to handle him and see him. He ate before them. All this was to satisfy them that he was not, as they supposed, a spirit. Nor could better evidence have been given. He appealed to their senses, and performed acts which a disembodied spirit could not do.

Handle me - Or touch me; feel of me. Compare John 20:27.

And see - Be convinced, for you could not thus handle a spirit. The object here was to convince them that his body had really come to life.

For a spirit ... - He appeals here to what they well knew; and this implies that the spirit may exist separate from the body. That was the view of the apostles, and our Saviour distinctly countenances that belief.

Luke 24:41

Believed not for joy - Their joy was so great, and his appearance was so sudden and unexpected, that they were bewildered, and still sought more evidence of the truth of what they “wished” to believe. This is nature. We have similar expressions in our language. “The news is too good to be true;” or, “I cannot believe it; it is too much for me.”

Any meat - This word does not mean “meat” in our sense of it, but in the old English sense, denoting “anything to eat.”

Luke 24:42

Honey-comb - Honey abounded in Palestine, and was a very common article of food. Bees lived in caves of the rocks, in the hollows of trees, and were also kept as with us. The disciples gave, probably, just what was their own common fare, and what was ready at the time.