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Jesus possessed the same molecule-defying powers before the Resurrection.

After the Resurrection, He specifically corrected the Disciples, who thought He was a ghost, for them to touch Him and handle His body, because He was flesh and blood and bones, NOT a Spirit and not animated by a supernatural or spiritual force.

Just as Jesus explained to Peter that though He could ask His Father to call 12 legions of angels to avenge His arrest... Jesus did not do this. Jesus put off His divinity in order to die in His human fleshly nature on the Cross and was risen in this same body.

As He said (again) “See my hands and my feet, that it is I; touch me and know that a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”

(to editor surveyor: don’t make up a Frankenchrist out of the plain humanity that is the Incarnation.)

John underscored the importance of this teaching by stressing that “Anyone who says that Jesus is not come in the flesh is antichrist”

He is come in the flesh... before and after the Resurrection.

And John then, says that we shall be like Him, but we do not know what we shall be like (in our own glorified bodies) until we see Him — because John had NOT seen Jesus in His glorified body.

And John wrote this after he and Peter and James saw Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration!

So John definitely did not see Jesus glorified after the Resurrection.

Jesus is come in the flesh and blood and bones before and after the Resurrection.

"After the Resurrection, He specifically corrected the Disciples, who thought He was a ghost, for them to touch Him and handle His body, because He was flesh and blood and bones."

Exactly. We're in agreement here. This was His true, own, personal body, flesh: but not unchanged.

As Paul explained (1 Cor.15:35-58) it's like planting a seed and then seeing the sprout come up. The seed is wheat. The sprout is wheat. The seed is tiny, hard, dry, inert. The sprout is flexible, green, rooted, juicy, transpiring, growing. They are the same thing --- they have the identical same genome--- but they have different characteristics:

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible. 43 It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.

This "spiritual" body is still flesh -- the same flesh that was born of the Virgin, was crucified, sweated and bled and died and was laid in the grave, solid, tangible, wounded, man-flesh, NOT A GHOST --- but flesh now SUPER-alive, perfected and glorified.