Luke 24:39 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 24:39

Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself. Touch Me and see—for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye behold me having.

KJV

Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

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Commentary

1 voice

Irenaeus

Against Heresies (Book V, Chapter 2), Section 3 (202)

When, therefore, the mingled cup and the manufactured bread receives the Word of God, and the Eucharist of the blood and the body of Christ is made, from which things the substance of our flesh is increased and supported, how can they affirm that the flesh is incapable of receiving the gift of God, which is life eternal, which [flesh] is nourished from the body and blood of the Lord, and is a member of Him?—even as the blessed Paul declares in his Epistle to the Ephesians, that "we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Behold my hands, and my feet,.... The Evangelist John adds, "and side"; that is, the prints of the nails and spear, in his hands, and feet, and side; and the wounds they made there, and the scars they left behind; by which they might be convinced he was not a spirit, and be assured of the truth of his resurrection, and that in the same numerical body in which he suffered; as well as that it might be observed by them how great was his love to them, to endure what he did for them.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Behold my hands ... - Jesus proceeds to give them evidence that he was truly the same person that had been crucified. He first showed them his hands and his feet - still, pierced, and with the wounds made by the nails still open. Compare Joh 20:27. He told them to handle him and see him. He ate before them. All this was to satisfy them that he was not, as they supposed, a spirit. Nor could better evidence have been given. He appealed to their senses, and performed acts which a disembodied spirit could not do.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

(1858)

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Original language & word study

27 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἴδετε	idete	do see	G1492 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
χεῖράς	cheiras	hands	G5495 →
μου	mou	of Me	G3165 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
πόδας	podas	feet	G4228 →
μου	mou	of Me	G3165 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἐγώ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
εἰμι	eimi	am	G1510 →
αὐτός·	autos	He himself;	G846 →
ψηλαφήσατέ	psēlaphēsate	do touch	G5584 →
με	me	Me	G3165 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἴδετε	idete	do see	G1492 →
ὅτι	hoti	for	G3754 →
πνεῦμα	pneuma	a spirit	G4151 →
σάρκα	sarka	flesh	G4561 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὀστέα	ostea	bones	G3747 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔχει	echei	has	G2192 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
ἐμὲ	eme	Me myself	G1473 →
θεωρεῖτε	theōreite	you see	G2334 →
ἔχοντα.	echonta	having.	G2192 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
leads to
- John 20:27
  Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 4:20
  For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
- 1 John 4:14
  And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.
- John 1:1–18
  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- John 5:26
  For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
Through
Ecclesiastes 12:7
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
leads to
- Daniel 12:2
  And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20–21
  All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- Psalms 146:4
  When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.