NOTES for Luk 24:43
The image of the risen Jesus, who eats fish and honey before His disciples' eyes, is one of the most remarkable Gospel images. One of the most encouraging. Jesus remains Man even after the resurrection. Precisely Man with a capital letter: not less, but more Man than He was during His earthly ministry. Because after the resurrection it is precisely His human nature that is revealed in all its fullness.
God's fullness is present in Him from the very conception, and it always remains equal to itself: God is God, He does not change. But human nature can change, and in Jesus it changes as in every human being. Yet in a fallen person the boundaries of such changes are limited by the damaged state of his nature, while in Jesus there are no limitations. And He shows us our own human nature in all its fullness.
Such as it will become in us as well when our Christian path is completed and we come into that fullness of life to which God calls us. And Jesus' human nature remains itself. It remains nature, and precisely human nature. After the resurrection Jesus does not turn into a bodiless angel, into a ray of God's light. He remains a human being who can communicate with His disciples fully in human fashion, not imitating something human, but precisely being Man.
His nature remains nature, and therefore nothing natural is alien to it, including fish and honey. Of course, passing through closed doors, for example, is not characteristic of the nature of fallen humanity. But, as is evident, the matter here is not human nature as such, but the fact that in each of us fallen people it is spoiled. When human nature is in good order, closed doors are no obstacle to it.
Not because it ceases to be nature, but because it functions somewhat differently, according to other laws. Yet since nature is one, Jesus' body is not cut off by some difference of nature even from such things as fish and honey: they too are part of the same nature to which the body of the risen Jesus continues to belong. This means that at the end of time, after resurrection and transformation, we too will not cease to be ourselves. Not only in soul, but also in body. And the world will not disappear for us, but will change, becoming the Kingdom where life is full in every respect: both spiritual and natural.