Jesus drew out of Simon these confessions of love. Jesus then entrusted to him the great privilege of the care of HIs flock, the apple of His eye. Jesus did not deal with Peter according to his sins; He bore his sins on His body on the cross and made him a shepherd in His likeness.

The Lord saw their needs and He gave them an impressive catch as a token of His provision for them. But He gave them much more than sustenance; He taught them a vital spiritual lesson.

Seeing does not always mean believing. Thomas did believe because he saw, but the ultimate reason why believed is the gift of God’s grace.

Faith is active and deliberate. Faith is also worship. Thomas declares this when he saw the risen Lord. He did not merely acknowledge the fact of Jesus’ resurrection but the theology it signified, but more than that, it was doxological.

The Spirit of God is indeed the Spirit of Christ (Rom. 8:9), even the “breath” of Jesus, who conveys His presence to us.

The risen Lord has for His people unfathomable riches. Despite their failures and unworthiness, Jesus gave His disciples this gift: the noble assignment to proclaim the gospel of divine forgiveness of sins

Jesus rose victoriously from the dead, having inaugurated the new covenant. This risen and victorious Savior then gave gifts to men, even “the unfathomable riches of Christ.” Jesus speaks of these magnificent gifts in His post-resurrection appearances.

The lynchpin that holds the Christian faith together is Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. It is the doctrine every believer upholds.

The empty tomb is said to be the greatest evidence of Jesus’ resurrection. The Jews could have easily disproven the resurrection by producing His body, but they could not.

If Jesus be our Passover, we must clean out the old leaven of sin and live holy lives. All who refuse to trust and obey Christ will one day bitterly grieve the shocking realization that they spurned and wanted dead the very God who stands as Judge over them.