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Why do we assume he had wounds on his hands and feet? Unless I'm missing a parallel verse, isn't that something we have simply surmised of his purpose of showing them his hands and feet? Could it be because they saw hands and feet something humans have that spirits don't? We have feet to move around on and hands to accomplish things in this world. Would an apparition or spirit have those things? I don't know if this has any cultural/historic bearing, but the verse doesn't say they saw and touched his wounds. He doesn't say "here are my hands and feet" as evidence that I am He who was nailed to the cross -- he says it as evidence that he is flesh and bones.