“Peace be with you” doesn't do the
trick. “Look at my hands and feet” doesn't dispel disbelief. Even touch me and see doesn't get a “My Lord and my God!” But eat a piece of broiled fish and
maybe the impossible will seem more plausible to doubting disciples. In the
every day necessity of nourishment the crucified, dead and buried Messiah is
accepted as really resurrected. It is the final and most intimate act of the
incarnation that the One who rose beyond the boundaries of death and life
entered this realm again to share a morsel with those still bound by mortality
so that seeing would be believing. In that sense “have you anything here to
eat?” might be the most grace filled words ever spoken by Jesus.
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