Yet they could not believe that He was alive as He promised. These people saw Him heal the sick, call the dead back to life, multiply food to feed thousands, and many other miracles.
The Lord Jesus, who cannot lie, told His very disciples that He'll be back from the grave after three days. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have."" And He said to them, "Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. "Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, "Peace to you." But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. The disciples, despite walking with Jesus for almost the whole duration of His earthly ministry, heard what He said that time but could not believe it. "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day." Here's how He said it according to Luke 9:22: He did say that the Christ must suffer and die, but after three days rise again. Luke 24 gives us a wonderful account of how Jesus proved to His disciples that He is alive. When words can't convince the unbelieving to believe What did Jesus do to show a sign that He is truly alive and that they're not seeing a ghost or their own imagination? He did what living people do: Even His disciples didn't believe it at first. Many people do not believe this, that He rose from the grave. He has risen from the grave, just as He promised.