Satan and his false doctrine caused the disciples to reject Jesus as Messiah and God. Jesus tried to warn them of His coming crucifixion and resurrection (Mark 8:31; 9:31; Luke 18:31-33), but “they understood none of these things” (Luke 18:34). Peter and Thomas wanted to go with Him (John 13:36, 37; 14:5) and Philip asked Him to show him the Father. Jesus answered, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?” (See John 14:9.) After Jesus was taken prisoner, “all the disciples forsook him, and left” (Matthew 26:56). Judas had betrayed Him, Peter denied Him, and Thomas refused to accept Him. The disciples believed Jesus came from God because they had heard His sermons and seen His miracles, but they rejected Him as Messiah and God.
When Mary Magdalene and Mary ran from the tomb to tell the apostles that Jesus had risen, they wouldn’t listen. “Their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not” (Luke 24:11). Later, Jesus walked with Cleopas and others whose eyes were blinded “that they should not know him” (Luke 24:16). But “he took bread, and blessed it, and break, and gave to them and their eyes were opened, and they knew him” (Luke 24:30-31). These followers were blinded until Jesus blessed and broke bread.
The disciples didn’t believe Jesus had risen. “They were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit” (Luke 24:37). Jesus said, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have” (Luke 24:39). But they “believed not” (Luke 24:41) until He ate a piece of broiled fish. Later, Jesus appeared unto Thomas. “Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing” (John 20:27). The disciples were unsuccessfully fishing when Jesus appeared again and said, “Cast the net on the right side of the ship” (John 21:6). When they drew up a net full of fish, they knew Jesus was God incarnate.
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