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Young's Literal Translation

Luke 24:40

And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the 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.
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.
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 as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace -- to you;' 37 and being amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit. 38 And he said to them, `Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings come up in your hearts? 39 see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.' 40 And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet, 41 and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?' 42 and they gave to him part of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb, 43 and having taken, he did eat before them, 44 and he said to them, `These [are] the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.' 45 Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: John 20:20 - he showed

Cross-References

Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him.
Genesis 6:9
These [are] births of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.
Genesis 17:1
And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I [am] God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;
Genesis 24:7
Jehovah, God of the heavens, who hath taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who hath spoken to me, and who hath sworn to me, saying, To thy seed I give this land, He doth send His messenger before thee, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from thence;
Genesis 48:15
And he blesseth Joseph, and saith, `God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked habitually: God who is feeding me from my being unto this day:
Exodus 23:20
`Lo, I am sending a messenger before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee in unto the place which I have prepared;
Exodus 33:2
(and I have sent before thee a messenger, and have cast out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,)
1 Kings 2:3
and kept the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commands, and His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that thou dost wisely all that thou dost, and whithersoever thou turnest,
1 Kings 8:23
and saith, `Jehovah, God of Israel, there is not a God like Thee, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the kindness for Thy servants, those walking before Thee 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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