Though at first she didn’t recognize His voice, when He called her by name, she recognized Him (v. We know the resurrected Christ looked like a man because Mary called Him “sir” when she assumed He was the gardener (John 20:15). No one saw bread going down a transparent esophagus when He swallowed. The soles of His feet didn’t hover above the road-they walked on it. They saw the resurrected Jesus as a normal, everyday human being. The point is that they didn’t see anything amiss. This suggests that God had prevented them from recognizing Jesus earlier, which they otherwise would have. They saw nothing different enough about Him to tip them off to His identity until “their eyes were opened” (v. They asked Him questions He taught them and guided them in their understanding of Scripture. The risen Jesus walked and talked with two disciples on the Emmaus road (Luke 24:13-35).

As Jesus was raised to come back to live on Earth, so we will be raised to come back to live on Earth (1 Thessalonians 4:14 Revelation 21:1-3).

Christ’s resurrection body was suited for life on Earth, not primarily life in the present Heaven. In effect, He also demonstrated where we would live as resurrected human beings-on Earth. Jesus walked the earth in His resurrection body for forty days, showing us how we would live as resurrected human beings.

Randy alcorn theology