Luke 24:39-53 ▼

39 Look at my hands and my feet, because it's really me. Touch me and look at me, because a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones as you see that I have.|

40 After he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

41 Even though they were still skeptical due to their joy and astonishment, Jesus asked them, |Do you have anything here to eat?|

42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,

43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.

44 Then he told them, |These are the 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 had to be fulfilled.|

45 Then he opened their minds so that they might understand the Scriptures.

46 He told them, |This is how it is written: the Messiah was to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

47 and then repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

48 You are witnesses of these things.

49 I am sending to you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.|

50 Later, he led them out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up to heaven.

52 They worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem filled with great joy.

53 They were continually in the Temple, blessing God.