Jesus Himself! We need nothing else when we are terrified and afraid. You may be fearing the consequences of your sin; fearing the approach of your enemy; fearing the future with its unknown contingencies; but Jesus Himself is the antidote of fear. He keeps the soul that trusts Him within the double doors of peace. See Isaiah 26:3.
This was not an apparition, but the clothing of the spiritual body, which evidently repeats the general outlines of the physical body, though in a rarer and more subtle substance. Does this incident not teach us that when we also are clothed in the spiritual body we shall not be wholly dissimilar from what we are today? We shall be recognizable by our beloved and they by us, 1 Corinthians 15:44.
What was it that made those hands and feet distinctly His own, except that the print of the nails was in them? John 20:27. "In the midst of the throne"¦ a Lamb as it had been slain," Revelation 5:6. [source]
Chapter Summary: Luke 24
1Jesus' resurrection is declared by two angels to the women who come to the tomb 9They report it to others 13Jesus himself appears to the two disciples that went to Emmaus; 36afterwards he appears to the apostles, and reproves their unbelief; 47gives them a charge; 49promises the Holy Spirit; 50and so ascends into heaven
Greek Commentary for Luke 24:42
A piece of broiled fish [ιχτυος οπτου μερος] Οπτος Optos is a verbal from οπταω optaō to cook, to roast, to broil. Common word, but only here in the N.T. The best old documents omit “and a honeycomb” (και απο μελισσιου κηριου kai apo melissiou kēriou). [source]
Greek Commentary for Luke 24:42
Οπτος Optos is a verbal from οπταω optaō to cook, to roast, to broil. Common word, but only here in the N.T. The best old documents omit “and a honeycomb” (και απο μελισσιου κηριου kai apo melissiou kēriou). [source]
Only here in New Testament. [source]
The best texts omit. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Luke 24:42
Nothing is said of His partaking Himself. Compare Luke 24:42, Luke 24:43. [source]