Jesus spoke to them at once. "Courage!" he said. "It is I. Don't be afraid!"

On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and the king of Egypt came to know about Joseph's family.

"Who are you, Lord?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you persecute," the voice said.

Now it's your turn to be in trouble, and you are too stunned to face it.

I tremble with fear before him.

"I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.

When they saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. "It's a ghost!" they said, and screamed with fear.

They were all terrified when they saw him. Jesus spoke to them at once, "Courage!" he said. "It is I. Don't be afraid!"

When Simon Peter saw what had happened, he fell on his knees before Jesus and said, "Go away from me, Lord! I am a sinful man!"

They were terrified, thinking that they were seeing a ghost.

But he said to them, "Why are you alarmed? Why are these doubts coming up in your minds?

Look, he is coming on the clouds! Everyone will see him, including those who pierced him. All peoples on earth will mourn over him. So shall it be!