Sentences with phrase «at tombs»

When a tree starts creeping over fences to get at tombs, the imagination is sure to run wild.

As early as the second century, Christians gathered for worship at the tombs of the martyrs, celebrating the power of God's grace in the lives of these faithful men and women.

Before the Mass, Francis silently in the basilica overlooking the shrine's vast square at the tombs of each of the Fatima visionaries.

Inscriptions and piles of wine amphorae give us a vivid picture of feasting at tombs of the dead, a practice Augustine tried in vain to discourage.

There was at least three women at the tomb.

You asked about the «inconsistancy» of the number of women at the tomb.

Now, let's look at what each book say about the women at the tomb.

If you need other portions of the question posed, which you rejected earlier as an atheist trick, then tell me what the many women who are sometimes two women and somethines one woman found at the tomb, including whether the stone was in place, who they found and where, and the other details.

Was there anyone at the tomb?

Mary informed Simon and the other disciple about the empty tomb, then she remained at the tomb crying.

She may have had a falling out with James the Just as well as other disciples after Jesus» death, as she never appears again after the «discovery» at the tomb, although there is a gnostic «gospel» attributed to her.

After all one book says there was 1 angel at the tomb another says 3.

A women shows up at the tomb first to see that Christ is not there and then goes to tell the men.

Notice: Jesus is troubled and weeping; the tomb is not far from Jerusalem; the tomb is a cave with a large stone covering the opening; the stone is rolled away; Jesus cries with a loud voice; the grave cloth is left at the tomb.

This scene at the tomb of Jesus bestows a supreme gift upon the beloved of God.

The words of the women at the tomb at the time of the events would trump your professors speaking 2000 cultural and chronological years distant.

Thousands of Jews, mainly of Moroccan origin, gathered to pray and hold festivities at the tomb of the respected rabbi who was known as a miracle maker by religious Jews.

When the angel appeared to Mary Magdalene at the tomb, he did not discuss with her the fittingness of the Resurrection, but rather called out, «Come and see the place where the Lord lay.»

1After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

Matthew's gospel mentions a rumor that the disciples, despite an armed guard at the tomb, had stolen the body.

To believe that the women, who were at the tomb right as the Sabbath (High Day) was beginning, and then RETURNED and did all this BEFORE the Sabbath started is not feasible, along with the fact that Marks states that AFTER the Sabbath was past, they bought the ingredients.

Because «they came with their spices prepared» thinking the body was in the tomb still (``... so they might anoint Him when they would come» Mark 16:1)-- , it was the women's first visit at the tomb, but they had to discover that the tomb was EMPTY and they could not anoint the body.

One thing the attentive reader will notice at once: the continuous narrative which ran from the account of the entry into Jerusalem to the discovery at the tomb is now broken.

As we have seen, the story about the women at the tomb, on the showing of the authors themselves, circumstantial as it is, remains inconclusive as evidence apart from further verification.

In Matthew, It's only two women, and they are only coming to look at the tomb, not to annoint.

Consider that the women were out at the tomb, right as the Sabbath was beginning (the High Feast Day Sabbath) on Wednesday at sunset.

This shows that Luke and John is indicating «going» to the tomb, and not «arriving» at the tomb.

Only in the obviously late and legendary story of the guard at the tomb (Mt. 27:63) is there any clear indication that a resurrection was expected, and this story is evidently related to controversies between Christians and Jews in Matthew's own day, many years after the event and at a time when the subject of dispute was the empty tomb.

Mary Magdalene was not only at the crucifiction, she was also at the tomb.

Cyril of Alexandria explains Christ's weeping at the tomb of Lazarus thus: «He permitted his own flesh to weep a little, although it was in its nature tearless and incapable of grief.»

24: 33), may or may not be true without what is implied in the invitation of the angel to the women at the tomb, «Come, see the place where he was laid» (Mt. 28: 6).

Furthermore, only Jesus raged at the tomb of Lazarus (John 11:33, 38).

Like the women at the tomb, Mary initially finds this step in salvation history quite unsettling.

As we saw in Jesus» weeping at the tomb, God feels the pain of this world at a level we can't comprehend.

«Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward,» is no doubt the Joanna mentioned also by Luke among the women at the tomb (24:10).

But Magdalene is always there — in Galilee, in Jerusalem, at Golgotha, at the tomb on Easter morning: and had her part in the pageant been duly acknowledged, she might well have surpassed the Virgin in prestige and reverence.

She loved her Lord so much that she was simply waiting for the dawn to go and weep at his tomb.

It is part of the irony common in John that he emphasises the darkness when Mary arrives at the tomb.

I. John uses three different verbs in this passage to describe what, (or rather «how»), Mary of Magdala and the two disciples «see» at the tomb.

It was the women who stayed at the cross (Luke 23:49), who brought spices to embalm Jesus (Luke 23:56), and who were present at the tomb when the first news of the resurrection was given (Luke 24:1).

or at Pentecost... or who showed up at the tomb first, or when Jesus went to Jerusalem), that doesn't make the Bible any less the Word of God.

For example, it for ever tries to turn our attention back to some supposedly historical event which took place at the tomb on Easter day instead of the present realty of the risen Christ.

In other words... no one would be at the tomb.

What better way than to post a guard at His tomb and keep Him there for four days.

I know what I think «happened» on Easter — at the tomb and beyond.

To both the women at the tomb and to us, the angel gives three messages: one about the past, one about the present, one about the future.

Nearly 2,000 years separate us from Mary, yet we will go to church this Easter with many of the same expectations as she on the first Easter at the tomb.

However, Jesus leaves no stone unturned (or rolled back as at the tomb) and tossed in the bit about Jonah being 3 days in the belly so to the Son of Man (Jonah 1:17).

What happened at the tomb is told in five verses.

Like all these women at the tomb, it takes all of us, each and every one and more.