I almost didn’t recognize him! It is surprising what a difference a single feature like that can make. One day he came to work with it shaved off.
CHUCK MISSLER THE FACE OF MARS FULL
I had an occasion some years ago to work with a software specialist who wore a very full beard. This seems to indicate that the Roman soldiers ripped off His beard! No wonder His friends had trouble recognizing Him! I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. Yet another most disturbing detail appears a page earlier: In Isaiah 52:14, however, it specifies that the extent of the abuse left Jesus hardly even looking human. This passage, sometimes called “The Holy of Holies of the Old Testament,” highlights the implications of the cross as eloquently as any of Paul’s epistles. The Psalm even opens and closes with His first and final words from the cross.Īnother such passage is Isaiah 53. He describes His pain, the piercing of His hands and feet He quotes the taunts of the crowd and observes the parting of His clothes, etc. There are many surprising insights and details in the Old Testament which amplify the New, including some astonishing physical descriptions.Ī familiar example is Psalm 22, which reads as if it were dictated by Jesus Himself as He hung on the cross. The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed. The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed We should remember that the Bible is a single, integrated message - 66 books, penned by over 40 authors over thousands of years, but in which every detail is there by supernatural engineering. Perhaps the most puzzling thing occurs later at the Sea of Galilee. When they join Him for that early morning breakfast on the seashore, John makes the strangest remark: “And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.” What does that mean? Astonished, of course, but why frightened? For some reason they don’t recognize Him until they examine His wounds! Why? When Jesus ultimately emerges in their midst, we find them all terrified. Why not during the seven-mile walk? What is going on here?
These two disciples join the gathering that evening in the upper room and confirm His appearance, emphasizing that it was in the breaking of the bread that they realized who He was.
(They confirmed this later that evening.)
(This itself is odd, since it was the role of the host-not the guest-to break the bread.) Their tip-off was in viewing the nail prints in His hands. In any case, they did recognize Him when He broke the bread at dinner. Later that afternoon, Jesus joined two disciples on the Emmaus Road, and for seven miles He gives them an Old Testament Bible study.Īlthough “their eyes were holden that they should not know Him,” the Bible doesn’t really explain what this means. She was no casual acquaintance: a few days earlier she washed His feet with her tears! Why didn’t she know who He was until she heard His voice? It seems that “Mary!” prompted her recognition. 1 She mistakes Him for the gardener-until she hears His voice. That early Sunday morning, even Mary fails to recognize Jesus at first. After Jesus’ resurrection, why did people always seem to have difficulty recognizing Him? We can’t help but notice something strange about Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances.
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