When the disciples saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. In their fear, they cried out, “It’s a ghost!”
They said his body was missing, and they had seen angels who told them Jesus is alive!
But the whole group was startled and frightened, thinking they were seeing a ghost!
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive?
“You’re out of your mind!” they said. When she insisted, they decided, “It must be his angel.”
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last.