Study Desk

Many people had come out of the city to see all this. When they saw it, they felt very sorry and left.

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb to see. He looked in, but he saw only the cloth that Jesus' body had been wrapped in. It was just lying there. Peter went away to be alone, wondering what had happened.

So some of our group went to the tomb too. It was just as the women said. They saw the tomb, but they did not see Jesus."

But Jesus said, "Why are you troubled? Why do you doubt what you see?

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."

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?"

Then John said this for everyone to hear: "I also did not know who the Messiah was. But the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘You will see the Spirit come down and rest on a man. He is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.' I have seen this happen. I saw the Spirit come down from heaven like a dove and rest on this man. So this is what I tell people: ‘He is the Son of God.'"

He answered, "Come with me and you will see." So the two men went with him. They saw the place where he was staying, and they stayed there with him that day. It was about four o'clock.

But Nathanael said to Philip, "Nazareth! Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Philip answered, "Come and see."

Jesus said to him, "Do you believe this just because I said I saw you under the fig tree? You will see much greater things than that!"

Then he said, "Believe me when I say that you will all see heaven open. You will see ‘angels of God going up and coming down' on the Son of Man."

The woman said, "Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.

"A man told me everything I have ever done. Come see him. Maybe he is the Messiah."

So the people left the town and went to see Jesus.

Jesus said to him, "You people must see miraculous signs and wonders before you will believe in me."

Later, Jesus found the man at the Temple and said to him, "See, you are well now. But stop sinning or something worse may happen to you!"

So the people asked, "What miraculous sign will you do for us? If we can see you do a miracle, then we will believe you. What will you do?

Then what will you think when you see the Son of Man going up to where he came from?

So his brothers said to him, "You should leave here and go to the festival in Judea. Then your followers there can see the miracles you do.

If you want to be well known, you must not hide what you do. So, if you can do such amazing things, let the whole world see you do them."