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While they were thus talking, He Himself stood in their midst and said, "Peace be to you!"
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Startled, and in the utmost alarm, they thought they were looking at a spirit;
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but He said to them, "Why such alarm? And why are there such questionings in your minds?
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See my hands and my feet--it is my very self. Feel me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see I have."
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And then He showed them His hands and His feet.
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But, while they still could not believe it for joy and were full of astonishment, He asked them, "Have you any food here?"
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And they gave Him a piece of roasted fish,
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and He took it and ate it in their presence.
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And He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you--that everything must be fulfilled that is written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me."
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Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
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and He said, "Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise again from among the dead;