In this week's edition of "There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye," Jill Bevilacqua
and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Third Sunday of
Easter. Listen: GospelLk
24:35-48
The two disciples recounted what had taken place on the way, and
how Jesus was made known to them in the breaking of bread.
While they were
still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace
be with you." But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were
seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, "Why are you troubled? And why do questions
arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch
me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have." And
as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they were still
incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, "Have you anything here to
eat?" They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of
them.
He said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was
still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in
the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled." Then he opened their minds to understand
the Scriptures. And he said to them, "Thus it is written that the Christ would
suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the
forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning
from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things."