I wrote in this column a couple of years ago that “there is something odd about Christ’s risen body”, which I suppose is fairly obvious. But I meant something more than the fact that it was risen, whereas most dead bodies stay dead.
I was writing then about the fact that Christ’s body is simultaneously recognisable and unrecognisable, and I gave the examples of the encounter with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus at the end of St Luke’s Gospel and the conclusion of the fishing trip in the last chapter of John.
