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Luke 24:37-39
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Luke 24:37-39
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
37 But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. 38 And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts?[a] 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
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- 24.38 Luke stresses this episode for the benefit of his Greek readers, for whom the resurrection of the body was both impossible and absurd; cf. Acts 17.32.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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