or maybe...

The stories say that after Jesus rose from the dead he appeared in a few different locations but people didn’t recognize him right away. So they called him a “gardener” and a “man walking on the road to Emmaus” in many of the first witness accounts.

The interpretations generally go that Jesus was in “disguise” or a “different resurrected body”, etc… but here’s another one.

What if the gardener was actually a gardener?

What is the man walking to Emmaus was actually a man walking to Emmaus?

What if, what his disciples came to realize was not that Jesus had literally resurrected but that the Jesus idea and love and way of life was still a part of all kinds of people and that this whole resurrection thing was way more metaphysical and symbolic than literal?

After that they began to see Jesus in more places.

Which, by the way, is far more powerful.

Just a maybe…