Luke 24:36-49
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
36While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."
37They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."
40When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" 42They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43and he took it and ate it in their presence.
44He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."
45Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46He told them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48You are witnesses of these things. 49I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."
John 20:19-23
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
Jesus appears to His disciples suddenly...I think He had to, at least appear to them (maybe not suddenly as He did)...The resurrection is the most important fact to mankind...The resurrection proves that we survive after we die...The soul survives death...We live on...There is eternity...There is something outside of our time...Jesus proves this is and it can be done...
What makes His appearance even more interesting, is the fact that He is now (after His resurrection) moving around as an angel or as a Divine One could move around...He came and moved around after His death, and does it again in "somewhat" earthly time...But He is not confined by time, thus the sudden appearances...This non-confinement to time, allows Him to suddenly appear to His disciples or to appear to anyone at anytime...He can even "just appear" behind locked doors...He is in a sense supernatural...He is somehow different (or at least acting somewhat different) after His physical death...One example is that even His friends don't seem to recognize Him at first...
But He was always supernatural, even in the beginning and when we first meet Him in the gospels...He could have at anytime moved around like He did after His resurrection...For the most part He follows the laws of nature when He was on earth...When He actually walked on earth, He could have moved around -in and out of earthly time, like He did after His death...But most of His earthly time, He followed the natural laws...But He actually did a couple of miracles and changed the laws of nature...Two miracles that come to mind, are when He calmed a raging storm and when He walked on water on the lake...But other than these miracles, it seems He traveled and followed the laws of nature, while He was on earth...Time means different things to Him, than it does to us...We may value time more than He wants us to value time, but that is only an opinion...He did not have to, and He could have covered more area, seen more people, and done more miracles darting in and out of time...He could have been at many more places and been at different places out of our blue...But He and His Father chose not to...Time and time saving movements were not important to Him...
Jesus could have done many, many miracles and enough strange earthly things that would have proved that He was divine to everyone...He could have done anything...But He is humble, and it doesn't seem to be His style -to want to do one more miracle, or to do continuous miracles...He did just enough miracles to prove He was divine...But He did just few enough, and in front of a only a few (enough) to leave wiggle room for the non-believer...He did this for a reason...He does everything for a reason (even though we do not understand much of His reasoning)...He did just enough miracles for the believer, but too few enough for the non-believer...He did this so, we would have to have faith and hope to believe in Him...