44\u00a0<\/sup>Then he said to them,\u00a0\u201cThese are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,\u00a0that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a045\u00a0<\/sup>Then\u00a0he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,<\/span>\u00a046\u00a0<\/sup>and said to them,\u00a0\u201cThus\u00a0it is written,\u00a0that the Christ should suffer and on the third day\u00a0rise from the dead,<\/span><\/span>\u00a047\u00a0<\/sup>and that\u00a0repentance for\u00a0the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed\u00a0in his name\u00a0to all nations,\u00a0beginning from Jerusalem.<\/span><\/span>\u00a048\u00a0<\/sup>You are witnesses of these things.<\/span><\/span>\u00a049\u00a0<\/sup>And behold, I am sending\u00a0the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you\u00a0are clothed with\u00a0power\u00a0from on high.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Nevertheless, Luke’s gospel coincides with the synoptic accounts and it would appear that Jesus appear to all the disciples at the house. Even though Luke leaves out Thomas’ fit of doubt, the account presents no real issues with congruency. It is fair to say that Jesus’ appearance in the house is an unquestionable part of the gospel’s over-all story. What else would explain the disciple’s courage and zeal to carry on the gospel message, after the Romans just put down the movement? The only explanation is that Jesus actually appeared to them. Each on of them eventually gave their life for the cause. People don’t do that for fictitious stories.<\/p>\n Here we finally see how Jesus is about to put their doubt to rest and appears directly before them. However, it is fear that takes over and they are still not able to believe that it is Him. He then has to gently and graciously remind them about what Scripture said would take place and His own words that He had repeated to them many times about His resurrection.<\/p>\n I think there are times when we allow for our own fear and sadness to overtake the hope and joy we have in Christ. He has made many promises to us throughout scripture that He will provide joy in place of sadness, hope instead of hopelessness, peace in place of fear, comfort during sad times and strength to face uncertain times.<\/p>\n Life’s circumstances can sometimes alter our view of God’s faithfulness in our lives. Jesus had promised the disciples that He would appear to them again and He did. That display of His faithfulness alone should cause our hearts to be filled with a joy and hope that can only be experienced through Jesus Christ.\u00a0The beauty of God’s promises is that despite our faith, He remains faithful.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jesus Appears to His Disciples Luke 24:36-48 36\u00a0As they were talking about these things,\u00a0Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them,\u00a0\u201cPeace to you!\u201d\u00a037\u00a0But they were\u00a0startled and\u00a0frightened and\u00a0thought they saw a spirit.\u00a038\u00a0And he said to them,\u00a0\u201cWhy are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?\u00a039\u00a0See my hands and my feet, that it is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12227,"featured_media":15140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2280],"tags":[1900,7265,2344,7268,7266,7607,7608,7267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nObservations and Reflections<\/h2>\n
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In Luke’s gospel, Jesus appears to the disciples seemingly all at once. He also appeared to Peter and another disciple on the road to Emmaus. However, this presents a possible timing issue with John’s gospel which does not depict Peter seeing Jesus until most the other disciples already see him and when Jesus does appear to Peter, he (Peter) is out fishing. It’s quite possible that Peter was at both appearances, however, Luke only records the first appearance. In fact, only John includes the passage about Peter being reinstated by Jesus on the shore. It’s also part of Johns “2nd ending”.<\/p>\n
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Once again we read on and see how hard of a time the disciples had believing that Jesus rose again. The once repeated promise that He would rise after the third day, fell on deaf ears and left them feeling faithless. The overwhelming sadness and shock of losing their Savior and close companion had taken over and they were unable to let themselves rely on the hopeful message that He would one day be with them again.<\/p>\n
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