Questions: Where does it say in the Bible that Jesus still bears the scars of Calvary? | thebereancall.org

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Question: You have said that the marks of Calvary will eternally be in Christ’s body, but you haven’t given proof from the Bible. Wouldn’t such scars mar His perfect resurrection body?

Response: There is no question that the marks of Calvary were in Christ’s body after the resurrection when He appeared to the disciples. What other meaning could there be to the disciples when He first appeared to them, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself...and...he showed them his hands and his feet” (Lk 24:39-40).

To doubting Thomas He said, “Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands [e.e., the nail holes in them]; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side...and be not faithless but believing” (Jn:20:27). That He is seen in heaven as the “Lamb as it had been slain” (Rv 5:6) could hardly be without the marks of Calvary, inasmuch as that is how He was slain. Moreover, for all eternity the center of the new creation will be “the throne of God and the Lamb” (Rev:22:1, 3).