- While they were saying these things, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
- But they were startled and terrified, thinking they saw a ghost.
- Then he said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?
- Look at my hands and my feet; it’s me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have.”
- When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
- And while they still could not believe it (because of their joy) and were amazed, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
- So they gave him a piece of broiled fish,
- and he took it and ate it in front of them.
- 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 and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
- Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,
- and said to them, “Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,
- and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
- You are witnesses of these things.
- And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
- Then Jesus led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them.
- Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven.
- So they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
- and were continually in the temple courts blessing God.
