Why didn't Mary Magdalene recognise Jesus after the resurrection?

Question

Surely his wife would have recognized him?

Answer 1

Because it didn't really happen the way they said it happened in the bible.

Answer 2

Those who have listened and believed on the distorted and evil accounts in the media of the life of Jesus Christ are sorely deceived! For the record Jesus never had a wife and if memory serves me correctly the man who says he found the "tomb" of Jesus's family also said that his finding was NOT definitively concluded. That means that there is about as much truth in his THEORY as any other big bang monkey THEORY that is out there!

To answer the question, Mary Magdalene did not recognize Jesus after His resurrection because He was no longer completely in the form of a human man. He was and still is in the transfigured form of His God-Spirit body; tangible, eternally alive, and with All Power!

Answer 3

She may not have recognized him because he may have looked different. We are resurected in a more perfect state. He could have been resurectted to a younger or older state than he was and she would not have recognized him, because he looked different. When I see pictures of people I know from years ago, I don't always recognize them either. Maybe that is not the correct answer- but that is what I believe.

Also there is no biblical evidence that shows that Jesus was not married, there is actually a lot of circumstantial evidence backing up that he was married and to Mary, but no hard Evidence. Marriage is a commandment he got baptized to fulfill God's commandments, so why wouldn't he get married? I believe that he was married and that he was Married to Mary Magdeleane. However, the bible does not say either way. You really have to be familiar with Jewish customs and really searching the bible to see the evidence.

Answer 4

The Gospel of Mary grew to become into no longer included in the recent testomony because of the fact it had no longer been written yet on the time the NT grew to become into valid authorized (around 325AD). the faster references of the Gospel of Mary do no longer seem till the mid 4 hundred's advert. The earliest replica of it comes from the 600ADs. the type of Greek used in the e book did no longer exist on the time Mary and the apostles lived. (it truly is as diverse from the Greek of the Bible because of the fact the English of the King James Bible is from the English many times spoken immediately). So there is not any reason to have self assurance the Gospel of Mary grew to become into written by skill of Mary, or for the time of her lifetime, or interior at much less 3 centuries of her lifetime. style of no longer easy to place a e book in the NT that wasn't written yet....

Answer 5

She did of course when she spoke to him .. his voice identified him to her, as well as his address, which was perhaps in a manner she knew.

As regards the first glances before he spoke and revealed his character..

Although he did retain a body that was able to eat and drink, as seen in some of the post-resurrection narratives, it would have been perfected.

His clothing was not necessarily what he customarily wore in his ministry. If the clothing was fully different the mind would not recognise the person necessarily.

There was also a total non-expectedness of it. Although Jesus said he was going to do and rise again, accounts of Jesus saying that in the gospels is marked in the disciples with non-comprehension.

Answer 6

Mary Magdalene was a disciple learning of the word from the Master...Jesus the Christ...

she was nothing else...

Jesus is transfigured after the Resurrection....


the church is the bride of Christ......

Answer 7

His resurrected being and aura were probably very different than what the disciples last saw of him. The disciples had fish with Jesus on the beach, and it says that they knew it was the Lord, but did not recognize him at first. They probably sensed spiritually that it was him, but his appearance was very different than times past.

Mary was not his wife. Don't believe everything you read, especially the contemporary stuff in the book mills that are made to sell like romance novels.

Answer 8

1 Pet. 3:18 says: "Why, even Christ died once for all time concerning sins, a righteous [person] for unrighteous ones, that he might lead you to God, he being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive in the spirit."

So, as regards Jesus’ resurrection, Peter says that “in the spirit he was brought to life.” This explains why on the resurrection morning when God’s angel rolled the stone from the door of the sepulcher the soldier guards did not see Jesus rise from the dead and come out, although they did see the materialized angel. (Matt. 28:1-4) This explains why, when the resurrected Jesus met two disciples walking that day to Emmaus and went along with them and started to take supper with them, they did not know him until he began to serve the bread; and then he disappeared. Luke 24:13-35.

This explains why, when the apostles and other disciples were met together in Jerusalem behind closed doors for fear of the fanatical Jews, Jesus must have come right through the walls. For he amazingly stood right in among them, and, after eating and talking with them, he vanished from them, but not through any unbolted door. (Luke 24:36-44; John 20:19-24) Of course, for Jesus, who had been brought to life in the spirit, to make himself visible to his disciples, he had to materialize on each occasion a body of flesh and bones. Jesus himself then said: “A spirit does not have flesh and bones just as you behold that I have.” Since the flesh-and-bones disciples could not see what was not flesh and bones, they could not see a spirit and they could not see the resurrected Jesus, who was “in the spirit.” Luke 24:39.

On some occasions the disciples did not know or recognize the resurrected Jesus. (Matt. 28:16, 17; Luke 24:15, 16; John 20:14-16; 21:4-12) The explanation for this is given in the words found in the Latin Vulgate, the Roman Catholic Douay Version, the German Luther Bible and the Authorized (King James) Version, in Mark 16:12. This verse in the Douay Version reads: “And after that he appeared in another shape to two of them walking, as they were going into the country.” The Greek word there translated “shape” is morphé, which the Greek-English Lexicon says means “form, shape, fashion, appearance.” But even apart from what Mark 16:12 says, a careful study of the resurrection appearances makes it clear to the honest investigator, who does not need to be a Sherlock Holmes of a detective, that the resurrected Jesus materialized different bodies to suit the occasion. On at least two occasions he materialized bodies that resembled the one in which he had been nailed to the stake. (Luke 24:38-40; John 20:20-27) On other occasions the form or shape that he materialized left the disciples in doubt for a while.

So Mary Magdalene did not recognize Jesus because he had materialized a body that she had never seen before. She only recognized Jesus by what he said to her. John 20:16

Jesus never married.

Answer 9

There is no Biblical evidence of Jesus ever being married.

Mary M possibly did not recognize Jesus because she was not expecting to see Him alive.

Answer 10

because he was disguised as a gardner bcz he was scared the jews might find him and torture him again , this thing proves that the crucifiction never happened nor did the resurrection bcz if jesus was resurrected as a spirit why would he be scared that the jews would kill or torture him, a spirit need not be scared of anything. Jesus was not ressurected bcz he never died on the cross

Answer 11

Because he didn't look the same. He was resurrected, meaning he was perfected. Just as everyone will be. Those who are missing a leg or an arm will have their limbs etc. She last saw Him when he was beyond human recognition, how would she know it was him when she saw what he looked like in his last hour?