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Gospel Reading - Jesus Appears to His Disciples

³⁶Jesus himself was suddenly standing there among them, and greeted them. ³⁷But the whole group was terribly frightened, thinking they were seeing a ghost!

³⁸“Why are you frightened?” he asked. “Why do you doubt that it is really I? ³⁹Look at my hands! Look at my feet! You can see that it is I, myself! Touch me and make sure that I am not a ghost! For ghosts don’t have bodies, as you see that I do!” ⁴⁰As he spoke, he held out his hands for them to see the marks of the nails,^a and showed them the wounds in* his feet.

⁴¹Still they stood there undecided, filled with joy and doubt.

Then he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

⁴²They gave him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³and he ate it as they watched!

⁴⁴Then he said, “When I was with you before, don’t you remember my telling you that everything written about me by Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must all come true?” ⁴⁵Then he opened their minds to understand at last these many Scriptures! ⁴⁶And he said, “Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah must suffer and die and rise again from the dead on the third day; ⁴⁷and that this message of salvation should be taken from Jerusalem to all the nations: There is forgiveness of sins for all who turn to me. ⁴⁸You have seen these prophecies come true.

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