Luke 24:32-49

The second appearance

32 They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”

33 And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven and those who were with them,

34 saying, “The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon.”

35 They began to relate their experiences on the road and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

Third appearance

36 While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and *said to them, “Peace be to you.”

37 But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit.

38 And He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

39 “See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

40 And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.

41 While they still could not believe it because of their joy and amazement, He said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”

42 They gave Him a piece of a broiled fish;

43 and He took it and ate it before them.

44 Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,

47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

48 “You are witnesses of these things.

49 “And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

I.       We started with the tail end of the 2nd appearing of Christ after Resurrection Sunday

A.   1st being the guards and the Mary’s at the tomb

B.   The second being the road to Emmaus (I covered that last year)

1.     Luke Chapter (24:32) They two are recalling what happen to each other

32 They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”

a)    We need to encourage one another in Christ

b)    We need to retell our experience with Jesus    

33 And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven and those who were with them,

34 saying, “The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon.”

35 They began to relate their experiences on the road and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

c)     We need to recognize Jesus at communion

(1)  Do we see Jesus there

(2)  They recognized His manner, the way he celebrated it….

(3)  Do we celebrate communion as Jesus did

(a)    Are we honest with Jesus about where we are in our relation ship with Him

(i)      Jesus appeared to Peter

(ii)    No record of this interview with Peter has been preserved, except one allusion in

I Corinthians 15:4-5

4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

(iii)   Peter had denied Jesus, yet Jesus appeared to him on the road

(a)   This is where Jesus restored Peter’s relationship with himself

(b)   Jesus later restored Peter’s discipleship to Jesus in John 21

(i)      Are we just at the relationship stage with Jesus

(ii)    Are we ready to be restored to discipleship to Jesus        

(b)   Are we honest about where we are with our brothers and sisters in Christ

(i)      Are we putting on a front

(ii)    No one is fooled by a front for long it all come out in the wash 

II.    The third appearance       

36 While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and *said to them, “Peace be to you.”

A.   Jesus breaks in on them

1.     As Jesus, they recognized Him

2.     As Spirit, passed through into the room

a)    His resurrected body possessed powers that transcended the laws of ordinary matter

b)    Jesus referred to flesh and bones what the disciples were familiar with

(1)  Obviously Jesus had also revealed his GOD side very clearly here also

c)     Jesus is God 

3.     Locked doors notwithstanding (John 20:19-25)

37 But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit.

4.     The disciples thought he was a ghost

38 And He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

5.     Jesus reassures them, with proof

39 “See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

6.     See my hands, and feet (24:38–40)

a)    Handle me I am not a ghost

b)    Not scars but wounds

Psalm 22:16

16  For dogs have surrounded me;

A band of evildoers has encompassed me;

They pierced my hands and my feet.

c)     I am the guy who was crucified

7.     Touch me I am the human also, I have flesh and bones

a)    Jesus was a man

(1)  Jesus is historical

(2)  Jesus is eternal also   

8.     As the man, give me something to eat (24:41–43)

a)    Ghosts do not eat

b)    Some broiled fish

c)     Peter later refers to this as convincing evidence to the gentiles he is trying to evangelize

Acts 10:41

41  not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.

d)    Jesus is comfortable in the present as well as eternity      

III.  Jesus reviews his past ministry and gives a crash course in theology (24:44-47):

 44 Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

A.   Here is what I said to you while I was here on earth

B.   Here are the things that are written of me in the law of Moses

C.   Here is what the prophets said

D.   Here is where I am in the psalms    

45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

E.   Jesus open their minds to the scripture

1.     Open our minds to the scripture

2.     Open our understanding as disciples

IV.Then Jesus explained what The Fathers purpose was

A.   To suffer, die, and rise again on the third day     

46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,

B.   The results of Jesus success

47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

1.     Repentance for the forgiveness of sins

a)    It requires something from us first

b)    Salvation is not free

(1)  It costs Jesus a lot for our sin

(2)  It cost Jesus His life for you for me for this whole world     

c)     Salvation is not a free deal according to verse 47

d)    Repentance for

(1)  For what?

(2)  Read It in verse 47 the word after for      

C.   Jesus speaks of the purpose of his crucifixion and resurrection

48 “You are witnesses of these things.

D.   Martyrs

1.     people who were there as well as

a)     Those who follow Christ’s example

b)    Proved genuineness of their faith in Jesus Christ by undergoing a violent death for the sake of their belief in Jesus

49 “And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

E.   It takes power from on high to do this

F.    God, in the Holy Spirit as promised gave people the grace and power to follow him unto death    

1.     The disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, to become faithful witnesses

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1 Lit Was not our heart

a Luke 24:45

2 Lit opening

a Mark 16:13

b Acts 1:14

a Luke 24:6

b 1 Cor 15:5

1 Lit the things

a Luke 24:30f

a Mark 16:14

* A star (*) is used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses.

a Matt 14:26; Mark 6:49

1 Lit heart

a John 20:20, 27

b John 20:27; 1 John 1:1

1 Lit were disbelieving

a Luke 24:11

b John 21:5

a Acts 10:41

a Luke 9:22, 44f; 18:31–34; 22:37

b Luke 24:27

c Ps 2:7ff [Acts 13:33]; Ps 16:10 [Acts 2:27]; Ps 22:1–18 [Matt 27:34–46]; Ps 69:1–21 [John 19:28ff]; Ps 72; 110:1 [Matt 22:43f]; Ps 118:22f [Matt 21:42]

a Luke 24:32; Acts 16:14; 1 John 5:20

1 Lit mind

a Luke 24:26, 44

1 I.e. Messiah

b Luke 24:7

a Acts 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18

1 Later mss read and forgiveness

2 Or on the basis of

b Matt 28:19

a Acts 1:8, 22; 2:32; 3:15; 4:33; 5:32; 10:39, 41; 13:31; 1 Pet 5:1

a John 14:26

b Acts 1:4

1 Lit Was not our heart

a Luke 24:45

2 Lit opening

a Mark 16:13

b Acts 1:14

a Luke 24:6

b 1 Cor 15:5

1 Lit the things

a Matt 16:21; John 2:20ff; Acts 2:24

b Ps 16:8ff; Acts 2:31; 26:22f

a Luke 24:34

b 1 Cor 1:12

a Luke 24:30f

a Mark 16:14

* A star (*) is used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses.

a Matt 14:26; Mark 6:49

1 Lit heart

a John 20:20, 27

b John 20:27; 1 John 1:1

a Luke 9:22, 44f; 18:31–34; 22:37

b Luke 24:27

c Ps 2:7ff [Acts 13:33]; Ps 16:10 [Acts 2:27]; Ps 22:1–18 [Matt 27:34–46]; Ps 69:1–21 [John 19:28ff]; Ps 72; 110:1 [Matt 22:43f]; Ps 118:22f [Matt 21:42]

a Luke 24:32; Acts 16:14; 1 John 5:20

1 Lit mind

a Luke 24:26, 44

1 I.e. Messiah

b Luke 24:7

a Acts 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18

1 Later mss read and forgiveness

2 Or on the basis of

b Matt 28:19

a Acts 1:8, 22; 2:32; 3:15; 4:33; 5:32; 10:39, 41; 13:31; 1 Pet 5:1

a John 14:26

b Acts 1:4