Luke 24:39 (WEB)
See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”
Catechism · 4
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“It is on this harmony of the two Testaments that the Paschal catechesis of the Lord is built,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. DV 14-16; Lk 24:13-49.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“"In their joy they were still disbelieving and still wondering."” — Catechism footnote: Lk 24:38-41.
“He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his Passion.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 24:30, 39-40, 41-43; Jn 20:20, 27; 21:9, 13-15.
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“Christ is raised with his own body: "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself";” — Catechism footnote: Lk 24:39.
Fathers and councils · 62
Gregory of Nyssa
“…had brethren, could the property of being Only-begotten be preserved?) and if the same Person Who said, “God is a Spirit,” says to His disciples, “Handle Me,” that He may show that while the Human Nature is capable of being handled the Divinity is intangible, and if He Who says, “I go,” indicates local change,…” — editor's note: S. Luke xxiv. 39.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“He does not speak these words of some spiritual and invisible man, for a spirit has not bones nor flesh; but [he refers to] that dispensation [by which the Lord became] an actual man, consisting of flesh, and nerves, and bones,—that [flesh] which is nourished by…” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“In which Man, after the resurrection also, when the doors were shut, we know of His coming to the whole band of the Apostles, and dispersing all that was hard to believe in it by His words, ‘Handle Me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have.’” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
Read the whole comment“And when He had said thus, He shewed them His hands and His feet.’” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
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John Damascene
“Handle Me and see, the Lord said to His own disciples when they were thinking that they saw a spirit, that it is I Myself, and that I am not changed: for a spirit hath not flesh or bones, as ye see Me have.” — editor's note: Ibid. xxiv. 39.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(Luke 24:39) Who can be so absurd as to suppose that He was willing that disciples should touch Him before He ascended to His Father, and unwilling that women should till after?” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…silenced who speak against His humanity, for they speak against Him, who saith, Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
Read the whole comment“…the Lord’s day; since, by the providence of divine grace, the course of the Lessons in Church included the account of our Saviour’s going up into the heavens; and what was then said was spoken principally for the sake of all, and for the assembled body of the faithful, yet especially for thy sake.” — editor's note: The section Luke xxiv. 36–53, which in the Eastern Church is the Gospel for Ascension Day, is also one of the “eleven morning Gospels of the Resurrection…
Read the whole comment“…receive ye as much grace as ye can bear; and look forward for yet more; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be clothed with power from on high.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“And immediately they touched him and believed.”” — editor's note: Compare Luke xxiv. 39.
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Council of Ephesus (431)
“…Lord Christ; who himself after his resurrection said to his disciples, “Handle me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye behold me having” (St. Luke xxiv. 39); let him be anathema.]” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39
Read the whole comment“Eran.—He said to them “Behold my hands and my feet that it is I myself; handle me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39
Read the whole comment- Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.2Demonstrations by Syllogisms
“To the unbelieving apostles the Lord after His resurrection shewed His hands, His feet, and the prints of the nails; then further to teach them that what they saw was not a vision He added “a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39
Read the whole comment “This He teaches in the words He spake to the disciples even after His resurrection “Behold my hands and feet that it is I myself; handle me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39
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Ambrose of Milan
“Hear His own words: “A spirit hath not flesh and bones.”” — editor's note: S. Luke xxiv. 39.
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Augustine of Hippo
“The disciples marvelled, and at first believed not, until they touched and handled.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 37–40.
Read the whole comment“For the members of Him rising again by His members were handled: for the members of Him, the Apostles, touched Him rising again and believed; and behold nothing profited the persecution of Saul.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
Read the whole comment“He hath risen again, and He saith, “Handle ye and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see Me have.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
Read the whole comment“And when He had thus spoken, He showed them His hands and His feet.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 36–40.
Read the whole comment“And Christ Jesus Himself saith, “Handle and see, that a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me to have.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39
Read the whole comment“And the resurrection of the body of the Lord is found to contain a type of the resurrection of our outward man, because He says to His disciples, “Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39
Read the whole comment“…Me, that I was born of a Virgin, that I am the Word made flesh; that I said truly, “Handle Me, and see, for a spirit hath not bones as ye see Me have,” that they were true impresses of My wounds which the hands of the doubting Apostle handled.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
Read the whole comment“It is not enough to say, “See;” He saith, “Touch, and handle, and see.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 38, 39.
Read the whole comment“When He had thus spoken,” so it is written, “He showed them His hands and His feet.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 38–40.
Read the whole comment“For even after the resurrection the body of Christ was called flesh.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39
Read the whole comment“…not a phantom, or shadow, or ghost, but, as Himself said, not deceiving them, “Handle and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
Read the whole comment“…the touch of the disciples, when He said, as testified by the evangelist Luke, “Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have;” or when He said to Thomas the disciple, “Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and put forth thy hand, and thrust it into my side.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For He, having risen, and being desirous to show that that same (body) had been raised which had also died, when His disciples were in doubt, called Thomas to Him, and said, “Reach hither; handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not bone and flesh, as ye see me have.”” — editor's note: John xx. 27; Luke xxiv. 39.
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John Chrysostom
“…being God, He bore the flesh; therefore even after the Resurrection, He said to the disciple, “Handle Me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones” ( Luke xxiv. 39 ); therefore also He rebuked Peter when he said, “Be it far from Thee, this shall not be unto thee.” ( Matt. xvi. 22.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“But to show that He took it again and raised it up, hear what He saith: “Reach hither thy fingers” ( c. xx. 27 ); and, “Behold, a spirit hath not bones and sinews.” ( Luke xxiv. 39.)” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“Handle Me and see because (or that) a spirit hath not bones and flesh, as ye see Me have.”” — editor's note: S. Luke xxiv. 38, 39.
Read the whole comment“…signs of His quite recent suffering, saying, “See My hands and feet, that it is I. Handle Me and see that a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have;” in order that the properties of His Divine and human nature might be acknowledged to remain still inseparable: and that we might know the Word not to be…” — editor's note: Ibid. 39.
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Jerome
“That is to say they scorn to rise again with the flesh and bones wherewith even Christ rose.” — editor's note: Cf. Luke xxiv. 39.
Read the whole comment“And when he had thus spoken he shewed them his hands and his feet.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39, 40.
Read the whole comment“…the nails in His hands, pointed to the wound of the spear in His side, and when the Apostles doubted because they thought they saw a phantom, gave them reply,‘Handle Me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and blood as ye see Me have’; and specially to Thomas, ‘Put thy finger into My hands, and thy hand into My side,…” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
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Tertullian
“…His hands and His feet for the disciples to examine, He said, “Behold and see that it is I myself, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have;” without doubt, hands, and feet, and bones are not what a spirit possesses, but only the flesh.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 39.
Read the whole comment“See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; for a spirit hath not bones, as ye see me have.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 37–39.
Read the whole comment“With Him they live; with Him they converse; Him they “handle” by day and by night; to the Lord they assign their prayers as dowries; from Him, as oft as they desire it, they receive His approbation as dotal gifts.” — editor's note: 1 John i. 1; Luke xxiv. 39; John xx. 17.
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Basil the Great
“…while illustrating the variety of usage, at the same time corrects obiter the error of those who supposed that the body of the Lord was a spiritual body, and, to shew that the God-bearing flesh was formed out of the common lump of human nature, gave precedence to the more emphatic preposition.” — editor's note: The allusion is to the Docetæ. cf. Luke xxiv. 39.
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John Cassian
“For ‘a spirit,’ as my Lord Himself said, ‘hath not flesh and bones.’” — editor's note: S. Luke xxiv. 39.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“In the Spirit she recognises God as Spirit, impassible and indivisible, for she has learnt from the Lord that Spirit has neither flesh nor bones; a warning to save her from supposing that God, being Spirit, could be burdened with bodily suffering and loss.” — editor's note: St. Luke xxiv. 39.
Read the whole comment“As the Lord said, A Spirit hath not flesh and bones: He then Who is, and changeth not, cannot have the limbs and parts of a tangible body.” — editor's note: St. Luke xxiv. 39.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
The report of Christ’s resurrection being published every where by the Apostles, and while the anxiety of the disciples was easily awakened to see Christ, He that was so much desired comes, and is revealed to them…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
This manifestation of our Lord after His resurrection, John also relates. But when John says that the Apostle Thomas was not with the rest, while according to Luke, the two disciples on their return to Jerusalem…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Therefore I think it most natural that our Lord indeed instructed His disciples, that they should see Him in Galilee, but that He first presents Himself as they remained still in the assembly through fear.
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
Nor was it a violation of His promise, but rather a mercifully hastened fulfilment on account of the cowardice of the disciples.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
But afterwards when their hearts were strengthened, the eleven set out for Galilee. Or there is no difficulty in supposing that they should be reported to have been fewer in the assembly, and a larger number on the…
Read the whole comment - Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
For the two Evangelists, that is, Luke and John, write that He appeared to the eleven alone in Jerusalem, but those two disciples told not only the eleven, but all the disciples and brethren, that both the angel and…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
But that which was said by the Angel, that is the Lord, must be taken prophetically, for by the word Galilee according to its meaning of transmigration, it is to be understood that they were about to pass over from…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
The Lord then standing in the midst of the disciples, first with His accustomed salutation of “peace,” allays their restlessness, shewing that He is the same Master who delighted in the word wherewith He also…
Read the whole comment - Gregory of NazianzusCatena Aurea on Luke
Let us then reverence the gift of peace, which Christ when He departed hence left to us. Peace both in name and reality is sweet, which also we have heard to be of God, as it is said, The peace of God; (Phil. 4:7.)…
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
The disciples had known Christ to be really man, having been so long a time with Him; but after that He was dead, they do not believe that the real flesh could rise again from the grave on the third day. They think…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
But persuaded by the example of their virtues, we can not believe that Peter and John could have doubted. Why then does Luke relate them to have been affrighted. First of all because the declaration of the greater…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Because by the word of peace the agitation in the minds of the Apostles was not allayed, He shews by another token that He is the Son of God, in that He knew the secrets of their hearts; for it follows, And he said…
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What thoughts indeed but such as were false and dangerous. For Christ had lost the fruit of His passion, had He not been the Truth of the resurrection; just as if a good husbandman should say, What I have planted…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Here then was a most evident sign that He whom they now see was none other but the same whom they had seen dead on the cross, and lain in the sepulchre, who knew every thing that was in man.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Let us then consider how it happens that the Apostles according to John believed and rejoiced, according to Luke are reproved as unbelieving. John indeed seems to me, as being an Apostle, to have treated of greater…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Now our Lord testifying that death was overcome, and human nature had now in Christ put on incorruption, first shews them His hands and His feet, and the print of the nails; as it follows, Behold my hands and my…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
But He adds also another proof, namely, the handling of His hands and feet, when He says, Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have. As if to say, Ye think me a spirit, that is to…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Our Lord said this in order to afford us an image of our resurrection. For that which is handled is the body. But in our bodies we shall rise again. But the former is more subtle, the latter more carnal, as being…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
For in that glory of the resurrection our body will not be incapable of handling, and more subtle than the winds and the air, (as Eutychius said,) but while it is subtle indeed through the effect of spiritual power,…
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Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 121.
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Cited together in Catechism §644.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 5.