…While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, "Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have." And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, "Have you anything here to eat?" They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them. He said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled." Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures…(Lk 24,35-48)
Experience of the risen Lord is given to the disciples. They are not seeking after the risen Lord. The disciples are terrified, troubled and the question about the resurrection and his appearances. Jesus voluntarily appears to them and reveals to them that he is raised from the dead. Jesus voluntarily appeared to the disciples on their way to Emmaus, similarly he appeared to Thomas etc. He goes on his own, to clear their doubts and to give them an experience.
Today, he is trying to prove to them that he is the very same Jesus who lived with them during his public ministry. He shows to them that he has the very same physical body. A question arises in our mind. Did Jesus have the very same physical body after the resurrection or did he not have a resurrected body? He seem to appear and disappear freely and enter through a closed door etc. And this shows that he did not have a physical body. But he eats fish and shows his hands and feet to the disciples to show that he has the very same physical body. Gospel writers were not worried about what sort of body had Jesus after resurrection. Their main concern was that he was raised from the dead and he appeared to his disciples.
Their second concern was that he was raised from the dead according to the scriptures. So Jesus is made to explain to them the laws and the prophets to prove that all what happened to him were according to the scriptures.
Resurrected Jesus was the very same Jesus who lived with them and preached among them (it was not someone else who was pretending to be Jesus etc). All what they have witnessed were according to scriptures.
