And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
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Gill's Exposition
And he took it, and did eat before them. That is, he took both the fish, and the honeycomb, and ate of them before them, they looking on all the while; and which was a proof of his being truly risen…
Behold my hands ... - Jesus proceeds to give them evidence that he was truly the same person that had been crucified. He first showed them his hands and his feet - still, pierced, and with the wounds…
Adam Clarke
They - believed not for joy - They were so overcome with the joy of his resurrection, that they did not, for some time, properly receive the evidence that was before them - as we phrase it, they…
Five times Christ was seen the same day that he rose: by Mary Magdalene alone in the garden (Joh 20:14), by the women as they were going to tell the disciples (Mat 28:9), by Peter alone, by the two…
Cambridge Bible
believed not for joy One of the psychological touches of which St Luke is fond, and profoundly true to nature (comp. Liv. xxxix. 49).
any meat Rather, anything to eat; see on Luk 3:11; Luk 8:55.
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