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Luke 24:40

After Jesus told them this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Love;   Trouble;   Unbelief;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dead, the;   Mortality-Immortality;   Resurrection;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Apostles, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Resurrection;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Appear, Appearance;   Hospitality;   Jesus Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Resurrection of Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lord's Day;   Luke, Gospel of;   Resurrection of Jesus Christ;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acts of the Apostles (2);   Body (2);   Discourse;   Foot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Body, Spiritual;   Christ, the Exaltation of;   Luke, the Gospel of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for January 16;   Every Day Light - Devotion for October 18;  

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And when he had said this, he let them see 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
* [No text]
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 While the two men were saying these things to the other followers, Jesus himself came and stood among them. He said to them, "Peace be with you." 37 This surprised the followers. They were afraid. They thought they were seeing a ghost. 38 But Jesus said, "Why are you troubled? Why do you doubt what you see? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It's really me. Touch me. You can see that I have a living body; a ghost does not have a body like this." 40 After Jesus told them this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 The followers were amazed and very, very happy to see that Jesus was alive. They still could not believe what they saw. He said to them, "Do you have any food here?" 42 They gave him a piece of cooked fish. 43 While the followers watched, he took the fish and ate it. 44 Jesus said to them, "Remember when I was with you before? I said that everything written about me must happen—everything written in the Law of Moses, the books of the prophets, and the Psalms." 45 Then Jesus helped the followers understand these Scriptures about him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: John 20:20 - he showed

Cross-References

Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God for 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
One day Enoch was walking with God, and he disappeared. God took him.
Genesis 6:9
This is the history of Noah's family. He was a good man all his life, and he always followed God.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. He said, "I am God All-Powerful. Obey me and live the right way.
Genesis 24:7
The Lord , the God of heaven, brought me from my homeland to this place. That place was the home of my father and the home of my family, but he promised that this new land would belong to my family. May he send his angel before you so that you can choose a wife for my son.
Genesis 48:15
And Israel blessed Joseph and said, "My ancestors, Abraham and Isaac, worshiped our God, and that God has led me all my life.
Exodus 23:20
"I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to lead you to the place that I have prepared for you.
Exodus 33:2
So I will send an angel to go before you, and I will defeat the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. I will force them to leave your land.
1 Kings 2:3
Now, carefully obey all the commands of the Lord your God. Carefully obey all his laws, commands, decisions, and agreements. Obey everything that is written in the Law of Moses. If you do this, you will be successful at whatever you do and wherever you go.
1 Kings 8:23
and said, " Lord , God of Israel, there is no other god like you in heaven or on the earth. You keep the agreement that you made with your people. You are kind and loyal to those who follow you with all their heart.

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.


 
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