Les Feldick Bible Study

Was Jesus' resurrected body physical or ghostly?

Jesus' resurrected body was physical, not ghostly. During the forty days after coming out of the tomb, He appeared and showed His disciples His hands and His feet. Scripture presents Him as tangible, not a fog or a phantom-like beam. The risen Christ was bodily real.

Les explains that Luke 24 provides an example of Jesus coming on the scene in His resurrected body during the forty days. He had come out of the tomb, and verse 40 says He showed them His hands and His feet. Les emphasizes that this proves He is physical. He was not there in some kind of fog or like a Star Wars beaming up or down; His resurrection body was real and tangible, not ghostly.

Luke 24:40

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

More Questions

What was Jesus' resurrected body like when he appeared to the disciples?

In Luke 24, during the forty days after his resurrection, Jesus appeared to the disciples in a physical body—he showed them his hands and feet—rather than as a ghostlike or non-physical form.

Was Jesus' resurrection body a real physical body or just a spirit?

The resurrected Jesus proved He had a real physical body by showing His hands and feet, because a ghost does not have hands and feet and He was not standing there fluttering in a mist.