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Good News Translation

Luke 24:40

He said this and 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.
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.
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 were telling them this, suddenly the Lord himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." 37 They were terrified, thinking that they were seeing a ghost. 38 But he said to them, "Why are you alarmed? Why are these doubts coming up in your minds? 39 Look 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." 40 He said this and showed them his hands and his feet. 41 They still could not believe, they were so full of joy and wonder; so he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" 42 They gave him a piece of cooked fish, 43 which he took and ate in their presence. 44 Then 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." 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: John 20:20 - he showed

Cross-References

Genesis 5:22
After that, Enoch lived in fellowship with God for 300 years and had other children.
Genesis 5:24
He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.
Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah. He had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah had no faults and was the only good man of his time. He lived in fellowship with God,
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is right.
Genesis 24:7
The Lord , the God of heaven, brought me from the home of my father and from the land of my relatives, and he solemnly promised me that he would give this land to my descendants. He will send his angel before you, so that you can get a wife there for my son.
Genesis 48:15
Then he blessed Joseph: "May God, whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac served, bless these boys! May God, who has led me to this very day, bless them!
Exodus 23:20
"I will send an angel ahead of you to protect you as you travel and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.
Exodus 33:2
I will send an angel to guide you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
1 Kings 2:3
and do what the Lord your God orders you to do. Obey all his laws and commands, as written in the Law of Moses, so that wherever you go you may prosper in everything you do.
1 Kings 8:23
and prayed, " Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You keep your covenant with your people and show them your love when they live in wholehearted obedience to you.

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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