![]() ![]() As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” ( John 20:20-22). Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. “When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The second time He said it, He began instituting the Great Commission, and did an act which was the precursor to Pentecost. To show them He was Himself, and probably to calm them down, He showed them His nail-pierced hands and side and the scars He still bore. “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you’” ( John 20:19). During His first encounter, He entered a room despite the doors being locked. He issued it both as a greeting, but probably to assure them as well. The Bible recounts He first said it as a greeting. ![]() The passage where the phrase is found three times is when He makes Himself known to His disciples, including the eleven remaining who were most close to Him. The chapter commonly organized in the Bible as John 20 recounts the resurrection of Jesus Christ after He died on the cross for the sins of the world, and several of His appearances to His followers. The Hebrew word that was commonly used for this greeting, and is still used today, was shalom, which is often used for hello and goodbye. It also had the connotation, being derived from the root eirō, “to join, to tie together into a whole, or wholeness.” The word for peace used in both usages by the Lord in the Greek Septuagint translation of the New Testament is eiréné. It is a feminine noun that generally was used to mean, “peace, peace of mind invocation of peace, a common Jewish farewell, in the Hebraistic sense of the health (welfare) of an individual” (Strong’s Concordance). He was both greeting His friends, and encouraging them that God’s peace would be with them at all times. It was a common greeting among the Hebrew people during that period of history, but it also had significance when Jesus said it after the Resurrection. There He said many things to them, including the phrase, “Peace be with you.” He repeated this phrase several times. The Gospels record the visits He made to many people after the Resurrection, including one to 11 of His disciples. ![]()
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