Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Luke 24:40

And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.

KJV

Et cum hoc dixisset, ostendit eis manus et pedes.

Vulgate

And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

ASV

And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and feet.

Douay-Rheims

And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet,

YLT

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Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: καὶ τοῦτο εἰπὼν ἔδειξεν [ | WHspur/Treg/NIV: ἔδειξεν | RP: ἐπέδειξεν
  • καὶ τοῦτο εἰπὼν ἔδειξεν [ — SBLGNT
  • ἔδειξεν — Westcott-Hort (spurious), Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐπέδειξεν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§644Even when faced with the reality of the risen Jesus the disciples are still doubtful, so impossible did the thing seem: they thought they were seeing a ghost. "In their joy they were still disbelieving and still wondering."506 Thomas will also experience the test of doubt and St. Matthew relates that during the risen Lord's last appearance in Galilee "some doubted."507 Therefor…
§645By means of touch and the sharing of a meal, the risen Jesus establishes direct contact with his disciples. He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his Passion.508 Yet at the same time this authen…
§1094It is on this harmony of the two Testaments that the Paschal catechesis of the Lord is built,15 and then, that of the Apostles and the Fathers of the Church. This catechesis unveils what lay hidden under the letter of the Old Testament: the mystery of Christ. It is called "typological" because it reveals the newness of Christ on the basis of the "figures" (types) which announce…

Cross-references

  • John 20:27 — Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.