He appeared risen from the dead to the eleven in the upper chamber at Jerusalem during Passover week and took food and ate in their sight. He took fish and honeycomb and ate and drank before them as a real tangible body of flesh and bones, not a spirit or apparition. His eating, with showing his pierced hands and feet and wounded side and letting them see, touch and handle him, proved he was the same crucified Jesus risen and left no room for doubt of his identity. Seeing him eat turned the sorrowing disciples from doubt, unbelief and fear to faith, joy, comfort and calm as they recognized their risen Saviour. Made eyewitnesses of the empty sepulcher and the risen Lord, they became calm and joyful witnesses that Christ had risen, establishing Christianity on evidence that could not be controverted.
Bodily Appearance in Upper Room
The eating took place when He revealed Himself as risen from the dead in the upper chamber at Jerusalem during Passover week, appearing there twice to the eleven and telling them to remain in Jerusalem for a time. In that upper chamber He revealed Himself to the eleven as one risen from the dead, letting them truly see Him and talk with Him and eat food in their presence, giving abundant evidence that He was living and not dead. His body had not seen corruption.
In His resurrected form He took fish and honeycomb and ate them before the disciples. He also ate and drank in front of them after His resurrection.
His eating before them confirmed that He was truly alive and bodily present with flesh and bones, a real tangible body, not merely a spirit or apparition. He was the same bodily Jesus they had known, the crucified One risen. Seeing Him eat helped replace doubt and unbelief with faith and joy.
The eating, together with showing His wounded side and pierced hands and feet and letting them see, touch and handle Him, confirmed He was the crucified Jesus and their Saviour and left no room for doubt about His identity. After seeing His wounds and watching Him eat, they believed. This evidence belonged with the empty sepulcher found early in the morning of the first day of the week with only the shroud left, and with His opening of Moses and all the prophets and the straight chain of prophecy concerning Himself, including to the two walking to Emmaus.
From Doubt to Witness
When He ate before them, the sorrowing and disappointed disciples were helped to recognize that He was truly Jesus Himself. What they saw turned doubt, unbelief, disbelief and fear into faith, joy, comfort and calm. They acknowledged Him as their risen Saviour with feelings no words could express. Their surprise and delayed belief, after struggling to believe that He was alive, kept them from fully enjoying the moment, though faith would have brought them greater joy.
Because the eating and the other proofs removed unbelief from the minds of the eleven, at the later meeting on the mountain in Galilee they had no doubt of His identity, while other followers present were only partly convinced. In this resurrection account He taught the disciples in the upper chamber and opened the Scriptures concerning Himself. That opening of the Scriptures gave them sacred hope and joy. His showing Himself to His sorrowing disciples dispelled their fears and brought them joy.
Their eyewitness testimony to the empty sepulcher and the risen Lord made them calm and joyful witnesses that Christ had risen. In the upper chamber He revealed Himself to the eleven as one risen from the dead, letting them see Him and talk with Him and eat food in their presence, giving abundant evidence that He was living and not dead and proving His body had not seen corruption. This appearance belonged together with the empty sepulcher found early in the morning of the first day of the week with only the shroud left, and with His opening of Moses and all the prophets concerning Himself to the two walking to Emmaus. Their testimony was a decided triumph that made of none effect the priests' falsehood that the body had been stolen, and established Christianity on evidence that could not be controverted.
He appeared risen from the dead to the eleven in the upper chamber at Jerusalem during Passover week and took food and ate in their sight. He took fish and honeycomb and ate and drank before them as a real tangible body of flesh and bones, not a spirit or apparition. His eating, with showing his pierced hands and feet and wounded side and letting them see, touch and handle him, proved he was the same crucified Jesus risen and left no room for doubt of his identity. Seeing him eat turned the sorrowing disciples from doubt, unbelief and fear to faith, joy, comfort and calm as they recognized their risen Saviour. Made eyewitnesses of the empty sepulcher and the risen Lord, they became calm and joyful witnesses that Christ had risen, establishing Christianity on evidence that could not be controverted.
Bodily Appearance in Upper Room
The eating took place when He revealed Himself as risen from the dead in the upper chamber at Jerusalem during Passover week, appearing there twice to the eleven and telling them to remain in Jerusalem for a time. In that upper chamber He revealed Himself to the eleven as one risen from the dead, letting them truly see Him and talk with Him and eat food in their presence, giving abundant evidence that He was living and not dead. His body had not seen corruption.
In His resurrected form He took fish and honeycomb and ate them before the disciples. He also ate and drank in front of them after His resurrection.
His eating before them confirmed that He was truly alive and bodily present with flesh and bones, a real tangible body, not merely a spirit or apparition. He was the same bodily Jesus they had known, the crucified One risen. Seeing Him eat helped replace doubt and unbelief with faith and joy.
The eating, together with showing His wounded side and pierced hands and feet and letting them see, touch and handle Him, confirmed He was the crucified Jesus and their Saviour and left no room for doubt about His identity. After seeing His wounds and watching Him eat, they believed. This evidence belonged with the empty sepulcher found early in the morning of the first day of the week with only the shroud left, and with His opening of Moses and all the prophets and the straight chain of prophecy concerning Himself, including to the two walking to Emmaus.
From Doubt to Witness
When He ate before them, the sorrowing and disappointed disciples were helped to recognize that He was truly Jesus Himself. What they saw turned doubt, unbelief, disbelief and fear into faith, joy, comfort and calm. They acknowledged Him as their risen Saviour with feelings no words could express. Their surprise and delayed belief, after struggling to believe that He was alive, kept them from fully enjoying the moment, though faith would have brought them greater joy.
Because the eating and the other proofs removed unbelief from the minds of the eleven, at the later meeting on the mountain in Galilee they had no doubt of His identity, while other followers present were only partly convinced. In this resurrection account He taught the disciples in the upper chamber and opened the Scriptures concerning Himself. That opening of the Scriptures gave them sacred hope and joy. His showing Himself to His sorrowing disciples dispelled their fears and brought them joy.
Their eyewitness testimony to the empty sepulcher and the risen Lord made them calm and joyful witnesses that Christ had risen. In the upper chamber He revealed Himself to the eleven as one risen from the dead, letting them see Him and talk with Him and eat food in their presence, giving abundant evidence that He was living and not dead and proving His body had not seen corruption. This appearance belonged together with the empty sepulcher found early in the morning of the first day of the week with only the shroud left, and with His opening of Moses and all the prophets concerning Himself to the two walking to Emmaus. Their testimony was a decided triumph that made of none effect the priests' falsehood that the body had been stolen, and established Christianity on evidence that could not be controverted.