The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

THE LAST MIRACLE 415
dead, in the completeness of His person, physical as
well as spiritual—or
there was no Resurrection at all.
His body rose as well as His spirit. That body was
the same as He took into the tomb ;
the same, though
so different—different as the " spiritual body " of
which St Paul speaks of as the heritage of the
Saints is different from the body of our " humiliation "
—different, and yet the same. That difference is
subtly suggested here in the wistful yearning of the
disciples to ask a question of the awe-inspiring Figure
before them in the grey dawn, " and none durst ask
Him, Who art Thou"
;
and the identity is seen in
the inner core of certainty which underlay that touch
of doubt— " Knowing that it was the Lord." Tt was
the Master Himself, in
the wholeness of His Personality,
whose voice called across the waters, " Lads,
have ye any fish " and who prepared " the fire, and
the fish laid thereon, and bread," and who, in the old
familiar, loving way, saith unto them, " Come and
dine."
II.
Looking more closely at the narrative, we can
see, too, right through it all, a remarkable
fidelity in the character-painting of the various
individuals— the dramatis persona — of the
scene.
For instance, see how the various dispositions of
the disciples reappear and stand out.
We see Simon Peter—energetic, impulsive, rest-