Read Luke 24:36b-48

Read Luke 24:36b-48

36 While the two were telling them this, suddenly the Lord himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”^f

37 They were terrified, thinking that they were seeing a ghost. ³⁸But he said to them, “Why are you alarmed? Why are these doubts coming up in your minds? ³⁹Look at my hands and my feet, and see that it is I myself. Feel me, and you will know, for a ghost doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you can see I have.”

40 He said this and showed them his hands and his feet.^{g 41}They still could not believe, they were so full of joy and wonder; so he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” ⁴²They gave him a piece of cooked fish, ⁴³which he took and ate in their presence.

44 Then he said to them, “These are the very things I told you about while I was still with you: everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the writings of the prophets, and the Psalms had to come true.”

45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, ⁴⁶and said to them, “This is what is written: the Messiah must suffer and must rise from death three days later, ⁴⁷and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem. ⁴⁸You are witnesses of these things.

Think

"The message about repentance and forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations..." (Luke 24:47)

Pray

Lord help me to preach the message of forgiveness in word and in deed.