Sentences with phrase «mentions of the tomb»

This being so, it is an important fact that this very early account of Easter makes no mention of the tomb being found empty.

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They suggest that, apart from a parenthetical allusion in the Emmaus narrative, and a doubtfully authentic mention of Peter going to the tomb, the disciples themselves were not concerned about the tomb at all.

«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 none of the apostles figure in this story, and whatever historical element may reside in it, it was not the finding of the empty tomb that brought the apostles to faith in the risen Christ, and if Paul ever heard the story he never thought it worth a mention, even when he assembled the evidence of witnesses in I Corinthians 15.

Once the tomb pericope is separated from the rest of the Gospel it is seen that it could not have existed in this form as an independent tradition, for the mention of the women with which it begins has had to take the form it does in order to link what follows with the preceding Passion story.

Paul does not mention the finding of the empty tomb, and it may be safely presumed that he does not know of it.

The only author in the Bible who mentions anything about guards being at the tomb, Matthew, says that the guards were not posted until the next day after Jesus body had been placed in the tomb, and, even though Joseph of Arimethea had rolled a great stone in front of the tomb, he had not sealed it.

The story of her dream, leading to the finding of the cross, is not mentioned by Eusebius, who was bishop of Caesarea at the time and left the chief contemporary account of the discovery of the tomb.

The tomb dates to ancient Egypt's 12th Dynasty, between 1985 B.C. and 1773 B.C. Coffin inscriptions mention a female, Khnum - Aa, as the mother of both men.

Cannabis is also mentioned in the Talmud, Judaism's key ancient text, and evidence of its pollen or oil has been found in several ancient Egyptian tombs, including that of the pharaoh Ramses II.

I haven't even mentioned its expert use of puzzles and the many tombs you can unearth.