A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.”
But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire.
Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see. My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.
They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” and they cried out in fear.
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