"Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have."

The Hand - A Symbol of the Active Life
The Bible is signally distinguished for this, that with a message from God it reaches the human heart, but not less remarkable is the attention which it directs to the human hands.
In our Western speech, with its leaning toward abstraction, we speak of character and its outflow in conduct; but in the Eastern speech, which has always been pictorial, men spoke of the heart and its witness in the hands.
"Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ....? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart."
"If thy hand offend thee, cut it off."
"Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth."
And Pilate, wishing to assert his innocence in a manner which the Jews could comprehend, did not cry, "My conduct is reproachless," but in the presence of them all he washed his hands.
That is the symbolism of the hand in Scripture. It is conduct incarnate, the sign of the active life. It is the organ through which is sketched, as on a screen, the thought that is singing or surging in the heart.
Now if that be true of every human hand, it will be very specially true of the hands of Christ.
He is always saying to us "Behold My heart": but in the same voice He says, "Behold My hands."