16. τοῦ μὴ ἐπιγνῶναι. ‘That they should not recognise Him.’ There are two other instances of the same remarkable fact. Mary of Magdala did not recognise Him (Joh 20:14), nor the disciples on the Lake (Joh 21:4). The same thing is evidently implied in Luk 24:37 and in Mat 28:17; and it exactly accords with the clear indications that the Resurrection Body of our Lord was a Glorified Body of which the conditions transcended those of ordinary mortality. Comp. Mar 16:12.