After Jesus was risen he appeared several times to his disciples and to Mary Magdalene. One common denominators among this appearances was that Jesus was not recognized by them, at least at first sight.
Mary thought he was the gardener. The two disciples waling to Emaus only recognized Jesus when he had left. And then the fishermen realized that it was Him when they caught one hundred and fifty three fish.
Those people had been with Jesus for significantly a long period of time, so how come they were not able to recognize Him right away.
There could be two possible explanations why it is so. First, Jesus could have significantly changed and second, perhaps the authors were trying to tell the reader behind the lines about something, a sort of an apologetics.
Most likely the first one is the right explanation for the disciples not being able to recognize Jesus would be more to discredit the significance of the writing rather than make it more sensible.
So now what could have been the changes. Definitely it should be something better than the earthly body, something more perfect and something that looks like a gardener.
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