Bible Strands
Luke 24:42
So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The disciples hand a portion of cooked fish to the resurrected Jesus immediately after He asks for food, bridging His inquiry in Luke 24:41 and His subsequent eating in Luke 24:43.
The words — ὀπτοῦ (optou) = broiled/roasted and ἰχθύος (ichthuos) = of a fish.
The thread — The combination of disciples providing fish and Jesus cooking/eating it appears again in John 21:6, 21:9, and 21:13.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to accept the plain report of physical consumption without allegorizing the meal away, grounding the resurrection in tangible, historical reality.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.