Luke 24:33-48

33Immediately they got up and they returned to Jerusalem. There they found the 11 apostles and other people who were with them.

34The people there told the two disciples, ‘It is true! The Lord Jesus is alive again. He has appeared to Simon!’

35Then the two disciples spoke to the whole group. They told what had happened to them on the road to their village. They told how they recognized Jesus when he broke the bread into pieces in their home.

36While they were still speaking like that, Jesus himself stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’

37But the whole group was very surprised and afraid. They thought that they were seeing a spirit.

38Jesus said to them, ‘You should not be so afraid. You seem to have trouble in your minds about what you are seeing.

39Now look at my hands and my feet. It is really me! Touch me. Then you will know that I am not a spirit. A spirit does not have a body with skin and bones. You can see that I have a real body.’

40When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

41This was such good news, they were very happy. But they could still not really believe it. So he asked them, ‘Do you have anything that I could eat?’

42They gave him a piece of fish that they had cooked.

43While they were watching, he took it and he ate it.

44Then he said to them, ‘I told you about these things while I was still with you. Everything that God's servants wrote about me in the Bible had to happen. Moses wrote about me in his book of God's Law. The prophets also wrote about me. The book called Psalms also tells about me. And now it has become true.’

45Then he helped them to understand God's message in the Bible.

46He told them, ‘This is what it says there: The Messiah had to die. Then, after three days, he had to rise up and become alive again.

47People in every country of the world must hear God's message. They must stop doing wrong things and change how they live. When they do this, God will forgive them. He will forgive all the bad things that they have done. People need to tell this message about the Messiah in Jerusalem first, then tell people in other countries.

48You are the people who have seen what has happened here. You must tell other people about it.