Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 24:37
But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld a spirit.See under preceding verse. It was incumbent upon Jesus to win over the apostles to a complete and unfailing faith in his resurrection; and so, in these verses, one beholds the Son of God actually laying the keel, in a figure, of that ship of the church which would sail the seas of all subsequent generations. After the interview reported in this paragraph and the Johannine parallel, there was never any wavering at all... read more
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 24:36
And as they spake these things, he himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.JESUS' APPEARANCE TO THE APOSTLES AND OTHERS (THOMAS BEING ABSENT)See in my Commentary on John, under John 20:19-23, for comment on the parallel passage in the Gospel of John.Peace be unto you ... These were the last words Jesus had spoken before going forth to suffer crucifixion and death; but in the meanwhile, the conduct of the apostles had been such as to leave them weighted down... read more