How did Jesus appear after His resurrection?

Answer 1

Matthew.

1. To the two Marys (xxviii, 9).

2. To the eleven in Galilee (17).

Mark.

1. To Mary Magdalene (xvi, 9).

2. To two of his disciples (l2).

3. To the eleven at meat (14).

The appearances of Jesus mentioned in Mark are all in the apocryphal supplement. The Gospel of Mark proper does not record a single appearance of Jesus.

Luke.

1. To Cleopas and his companion (xxiv, 13-31).

2. To Simon (Peter) (34).

3. To the eleven and others (36).

John.

1. To Mary Magdalene (xx, 14-18).

2. To ten (? Judas was dead at this time) disciples (19-24).

3. To the eleven (26-29).

4. To Peter, John and others (xxi).

The last chapter of this Gospel, which contains the account of his fourth appearance, and which ascribes the authorship of the Gospel to the "beloved disciple" (John), is a forgery.

No two of the Evangelists agree. No two of them are fully agreed in regard to a single appearance. Each not only omits the appearances mentioned by the others, but his narrative in nearly every instance excludes them. As Strauss says, "The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records."

Referring to the different accounts of the resurrection given by the Evangelists, Dr. Westcott says: "They contain difficulties which it is impossible to explain with certainty" (Introduction to Study of Gospels, p. 329).

Dr. Farrar makes the following admission: "Any one who will attentively read side by side the narratives of these appearances on the first day of the resurrection, will see that they have only been preserved for us in general, interblended, and scattered notices, which, in strict exactness, render it impossible, without many arbitrary suppositions, to produce from them a certain narrative of the order of events. The lacunae, the compressions, the variations, the actual differences, the subjectivity of the narrators as affected by spiritual revelations, render all harmonies at the best uncertain" (Life of Christ, Vol. II, p. 432, note).

Answer 2

If you take the accounts of his many appearances all together they boil down to the following basic descriptions: 1. Jesus was flesh and blood - not a 'ghost' in any shape or form (He made this very clear to the disciples!). He ate, and could be touched 2. He continued to bear the marks of his crucifixion (holes in his hands and side) 3. Despite his physical body, he could appear and disappear at will - often appearing when the disciples least expected it, and, on one occasion at Emmaus, disappeared from sight the moment he was recognised. 4. He was sometimes seen as being 'different' or not easily recogniseable as Jesus until he allowed the person to whom he appeared to see him for who he was. 5. His resurrection body exuded awe, glory and holiness, much more so than even at his transfiguration. All of the above can be backed up by Biblical passages that corroborate the description of Jesus' resurrection body.

Answer 3

Jesus Christ did not "get" resurrected. If belief in Him as the Godman is consulted, no outside force restored His life: it was Christ by His own power and volition Who reanimated His body and resurrected.

Catholic tradition, vehemently opposed by the Protestants since it is not written in scripture, is that Christ first appeared to His own mother. The Bible accounts speak of the women going to the tomb to complete the Jewish burial customs, however, Mary is noticeably absent from their company. This omission in the Bible speaks volumes. Mary is absent because she was the only one who understood her Son and His words. She alone kept the Faith when all others lost it during the calamity of His execution. Thus she believed He would resurrect and did not go to the tomb, knowing that He promised He would rise on the third day and so would not be there. Often, saints imagine a scene paralleling the Annunciation: Our lady at prayer when a heavenly manifestation salutes her. In this case, mourning in her chambers but still keeping the Faith, Our Lord would have visited and comforted her.

Biblical accounts speak of Christ still bearing the five most ignominious wounds of His death, those being the holes of the nails in His hands and feet and the spear entry point in His side. These wounds were open, yet were not bloody. He was real flesh, not a spirit or ghost, and was capable of eating, discourse and normal activity although His body was glorified. He is often depicted in a white garment, symbolizing purity and new life, but the exact color of his clothing is not known, and white seems unlikely since at that time and locale white symbolized insanity or foolishness, as seen by how Herod clothed Our Lord in such a garment when He was sent to Him for trial.

Answer 4

Mary Magdalene (John 20:14-16)

Cleopas & another follower on the way to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-32)

The 11 Disciples (Luke 24:36-43 et al)

more than 500 other followers (1 Corinthians 15:6)

James, presumably Jesus' half-brother (1 Corinthians 15:7)

Saul/Apostle Paul (Acts 9:1-9)

There are others that have seen Jesus after his earthly resurrection, but these are the prominent ones listed in the Bible.

Answer 5

A:One of the most perplexing differences between Paul's epistles and the gospels is in the description of just whom the risen Jesus appeared to.

The various gospel accounts differ in detail, but essentially say that Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene and possibly to other women, and to the eleven apostles including Peter.

Paul says that Jesus was seen by Cephas (Peter), then the twelve, then by more than 500, most of whom were still alive, then by James and all the apostles, and finally by himself. Reference to the "twelve" means that, for Paul, Judas had not defected from the group. Reference to "all the apostles" indicates that for Paul, the apostles constituted a much larger group than the "twelve". There seems to be no way to harmonise Paul's reference to the 500 with the gospel accounts.

Acts of the Apostles was written much later and there are indications that the author was by then aware of Paul's letters. This may explain the delay in the Ascension of Jesus, which takes place on the evening of his resurrection in Luke, but after forty days in Acts, during which time he was "seen by many". This does not exactly agree with Paul's 500, but at least allows the possibility, unlike the earlier gospels.

Answer 6

Mark Mark's Gospel was the first canonical gospel, written approximately 70 CE. The earliest known manuscripts of Mark do not even have a resurrection narrative, beyond the young man telling the women that Jesus had risen. Later interpolators added resurrection appearances to bring this gospel more or less into line with the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. So the answer has to be that there was no resurrection appearance mentioned by Mark.

Matthew In Matthew's Gospel Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw Jesus while on the way to tell the disciples of the earthquake and the angel at his tomb. Finally, the eleven disciples went to a mountain in Galilee and saw Jesus. Or at least some of them believed they did and worshipped Jesus, while others doubted it was Jesus. It may be that the evangelist was being careful to have a rational explanation if critics refused to believe in a physical resurrection.

Luke In Luke's Gospel, Jesus appeared to two men, Cleopas and (presumably) Peter, but they did not recognise him, even after conversing with him, inviting him home, and eating dinner with him. They only assumed that he was Jesus based on his words and behaviour, but then he vanished out of their sight. At his next appearance, Jesus went to some lengths to assure them that he really was Jesus, showing the disciples his wounds, and finally being drawn up into heaven. All this happened in and near Jerusalem, not in Galilee.

John In John's Gospel, Mary Magdalene went to the sepulchre and saw Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jesus, supposing that he was the gardener. There were then two appearances to the disciples in a room, quite similar to a single appearance in Luke's Gospel except, as Elaine Pagels points out in Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (2003), John's account seems intended to disadvantage the disciple Thomas, by causing him to miss the blessing of the Holy Spirit and then appear to doubt that it was Jesus that he saw [Pagels identifies a thread of anti-Thomas narrative in John's Gospel.]. Finally, Jesus appeared to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberius but, although 'the disciple whom Jesus loved' quickly identified him, none of them dared to ask who he was, presumably meaning that his identity was still not obvious to them all.

Apart from Mark, each evangelist tells us what he thinks happened, or should have happened, and each account differs from the others.

Answer 7

The exact number is not known. After His resurrection, Jesus taught for forty days and made various appearances.

Answer 8

More than 500, (1 Corinthians 15.5,6)

Answer 9

Mary is earthly mom

Answer 10

Himself