Deliverance from the Cross — Page 94
terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit'. (Luke 24:37) They must have looked distressed and doubtful, for Jesus said: Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as you see me have'. (Luke 24:38-39) any And while they believed yet not for joy and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it and did eat before them'. (Luke 24:41-42) On the evening on which Jesus showed himself to his disciples, one of them, Thomas, was missing. When he was told by the others what they had seen and heard he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of nails. . . and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe'. (John 20:25) On a later occasion when Jesus met them again and Thomas was with them, he said 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 94