# Why Did Jesus Look Different After Resurrection **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 20, 2006, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-jesus-look-different-after-resurrection/357511 "2006-05-20T07:23:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-jesus-look-different-after-resurrection/357511/61 "2006-05-22T18:55:30Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > With that long hair and all, he probably had major slab-head too. You’re so going to Hell. I’ll save you a seat! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-jesus-look-different-after-resurrection/357511/62 "2006-05-22T21:20:40Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > We were taught back in Catholic school that Jesus was resurrected in a _glorified body_, which would possibly not so much look different as look…better? Something like that. I don’t remember very clearly…it was almost 20 years ago! That’s the answer I would have gone with. ---
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-jesus-look-different-after-resurrection/357511/63 "2006-05-22T22:57:19Z")
In [one Christian tradition](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowing_of_Hell), Jesus spent some time in Hell after dying and prior to being raised. I can imagine looking a little worse for the wear after kicking down the doors to Hell and spending some time amongst the virtuous pagans. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-jesus-look-different-after-resurrection/357511/64 "2006-05-23T10:51:14Z")
> [@Speaker for the Dead](#): > > That’s interesting. Would you be able to dig it up so I could see it? My specific knowledge of the Bible is pretty limited. Yes, I will look up the chapter and verse. I know that the RCC celebrates this by covering the statues in their church the last couple of weeks of Lent, before The Thursday or Friday before Easter. I have been to funerals during this time and that was the explaination I was given. Monavis ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-jesus-look-different-after-resurrection/357511/65 "2006-05-24T11:07:00Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > Yes, I will look up the chapter and verse. I know that the RCC celebrates this by covering the statues in their church the last couple of weeks of Lent, before The Thursday or Friday before Easter. I have been to funerals during this time and that was the explaination I was given. > > Monavis Speaker for the dead; I read John and am submitting several chapters and verses for you; John Ch5 verse 59 where he hid.John ch 8 verse 20, chapter 8 verse 54, chapter 8 verse 37,chapter7 verse 30 and chapter 7 verses 4 through 6 You will note if you read the entire chapters that he was waiting to be betrayed at a certain time and this may lend some credence to Judas’s gospel. Monavis ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-jesus-look-different-after-resurrection/357511/66 "2006-05-24T11:50:01Z")
What if it was a Return of Martin Guerre? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-jesus-look-different-after-resurrection/357511/67 "2006-05-24T12:11:10Z")
When you’re supernatural, it’s easy to cloud people’s minds so they don’t recognize you. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-jesus-look-different-after-resurrection/357511/68 "2006-05-24T12:27:59Z")
I’m sure there’s a hefty dollop of imagination in this answer, but someone explained to me once that, although there was some kind of supernatural restraint preventing the two from recognising Jesus on the road to Emmaus, the breaking of bread was the moment of recognition, because in order to break bread, Jesus had to reveal _his hands_ (complete with still-visible nail-wounds). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-jesus-look-different-after-resurrection/357511.md?page=3)