The order of things after the resurrection

There were ordinary and extra-ordinary things after the resurrection. Rick Peller and I were musing on both this morning.

Extra-ordinary:

1. No one, but no one, recognized the resurrected Jesus. Many of these were his closest associates. What does this say about the resurrected body?

2. He had flesh and bones. The resurrected body has flesh and bones.

3. He ate a fish -- at least one fish, if not more -- and a honeycomb, and bread. The resurrected body eats.

4. (What is particularly extra-ordinary about #4 is that, in Jesus' case, God ate fish and honeycombs He created).

5. This physical Person apparently had an ability to appear and disappear -- we can assume He "walked through walls").

6. We know He was on earth 40 days after the resurrection prior to His ascension. And yet in those forty days apparently He didn't do much. At least very little was recorded. Wouldn't He have at least gone to the chief priests and said, "See, I told you so ... so there" But no, He didn't.

7. The whole thing.

Ordinary:

1. He still carried at least some of the physical damages inflicted on him pre-resurrection.

2. He still had flesh and bones.

3. He still ate.

4. There are still ordinary walls to walk through.

5. There are still ordinary roads to walk on.

6. There is still a natural-physical world.

7. The whole thing.

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John 20.15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."

Luke 24.15-16 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

Luke 24.39 "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."

Luke 24.42-43 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate before them.

Luke 24.36 As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace to you!"

Acts 1.3 To them he presented himself alive after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.