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Luke 24:37

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24:37 But they were startled and terrified, thinking 1  they saw a ghost. 2 

Luke 24:39

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24:39 Look at my hands and my feet; it’s me! 3  Touch me and see; a ghost 4  does not have flesh and bones like you see I have.”

1 sn The disciples were still not comfortable at this point thinking that this could be Jesus raised from the dead. Instead they thought they saw a spirit.

2 tc This is not a reference to “a phantom” as read by the Western ms D. For πνεῦμα (pneuma) having the force of “ghost,” or “an independent noncorporeal being, in contrast to a being that can be perceived by the physical senses,” see BDAG 833-34 s.v. πνεῦμα 4.

3 tn Grk “that it is I myself.”

4 tn See tc note on “ghost” in v. 37.



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