Luke 24:35–48
Then they told what had happened on the road, and
how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread. While they
were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace
be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were
seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts
arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself.
Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I
have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While
in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have
you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took
it and ate in their presence. Then he said to them, “These are my words that I
spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the
law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened
their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is
written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third
day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his
name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things.”
Reflection
How do I respond to Jesus’
questions: “Why
are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?”
Do I really believe that
I will live as I am now after my death? Help
my belief today, Lord.