Still these disciples were afraid, afraid it could not be true.
Then He showed them His hands and His feet that they might see where the nails had gone in, torn through the flesh and left eternal wounds as the chevrons of glory.
And still the silence of hope mingled with fear.
Then he said:
“Have ye here any meat?”
And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
And He took and did eat before them.
He had said to them He was flesh and bones, not flesh and blood.
He was not flesh and blood because in the sin-offering all the blood must be poured out at the bottom of the altar, and He was Himself the antitypical sin-offering. He had poured out His blood. It had run as a living stream from every vein and artery.
Because He was the sin-offering in death, in resurrection He became for the first time a priest—high priest after the order, not of Aaron, but Melchisedec.