WHAT KIND OF BODY DID JESUS HAVE AFTER HIS RESURRECTION?

It was a flesh-and-bones body like ours, recognizable to His followers (John 20:20), still scarred by the crucifixion (John 20:25-29; Revelation 5:6), and able to eat food (Luke 24:30-33, 41-43).

This resurrected body also had supernatural qualities. It could pass through walls (Luke 24:36; John 20:19) and could appear out of an disappear into thin air (Luke 24:15; John 20:19). In John’s vision in Revelation 1, Christ’s body retains human characteristics yet radiates heavenly glory.

According to the apostle Paul, believers will one day have resurrection bodies like Christ’s (1 Corinthians 15:35-41). He was “the first of a great harvest of those who will be raised to life again . . . For our perishable earthly bodies must be transformed into heavenly bodies that will never die” (1 Corinthians 15:20, 53).

LUKE 24:39-40 – 39 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.

40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.

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