How could Jesus get through locked doors?
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Great question! I'm sure it was a miracle because John would not have bothered to mention the locked doors otherwise.
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!’
So how did it happen? Jesus clearly had a physical body:
And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, ‘Do you have anything here to eat?’ They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence.
So how did Jesus just appear in a different location? Well, this is not the only time in Scripture this has happened:
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and travelled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.
Here the Spirit of the Lord performed a miracle.
Furthermore, we also read that Jesus also could suddenly disappear (Luke 24:31):
Then their eyes were opened and they recognised him, and he disappeared from their sight.
Whether Jesus Himself in His resurrected body could perform miracles by Himself (which I suspect) or whether The Holy Spirit did it for Him, the conclusion must be - it was a miracle.
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But did he? Did he come through a locked door? That would be to say that before he appeared in the room he was outside the room and still in this world and its dimensions.
More likely, he was outside of our world altogether, and in a dimension that we cannot enter.
Not because he had a resurrection body, but because he is God could he pass into our world(?).
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Jesus in his resurrected body is not bound by the physical laws of this realm. And that is the body all believers should hope for and are promised.
Beloved, now we are to be sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we will be, but we know that when He is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)
The above scripture implies that they were incapable of seeing Jesus as he is but there is hope that they will.
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