Several details are interesting in this scene.
First, it takes place on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee – the same area where Jesus had miraculously fed the crowd with the loaves and fishes.
Second, at the Last Supper (in Luke’s Gospel), the disciples squabbled about who was the most important. Jesus, using the image of a waiter, said to them: “Who is greater: The one seated at table or the one waiting on him? Yet, I am here among you as the one who serves.”
That’s exactly what he’s doing now. He cooked their breakfast.
This is the Jesus who died, rose from the dead, and ascended to glory. And here he is, like a mother taking care of her children.
Jesus constantly reaches out to me, extends his graced love to me. He wants only to care for me, help me, heal me, forgive me.
There are times when I especially need to be cared for.
By Jesus.
The four Gospels give nine narrative descriptions of the appearances of the Risen Lord. (In some cases, the same appearance is described in more than one Gospel.)
What is remarkable about these accounts is their sobriety. They are not eerie, mysterious, bizarre, sensationalized, as in some of the apocryphal gospels, or as often in accounts of visions.
For example, in Luke’s account, the disciples wonder if they are seeing a ghost. But Jesus doesn’t go in that direction. He shows them his hands and feet, and after that he asks for something to eat.
This contrasts with the accounts in some of the pseudo-gospels, which tend toward the secret and sensational. For example, here is how the apocryphal “Gospel of Peter” (written between 150-200 A.D.) describes the resurrection – replete with a cross that walks, two angels as tall as the sky escorting Jesus, and Jesus even taller.
“The soldiers saw…three men come out of the sepulcher, with the two supporting the other one, and a cross following them, and the heads of the two reaching up to heaven, but that of the one being led out by them going beyond the heavens."