When Jeffrey returns to New York in the second half of the novel, it feels like climbing
out of a tomb and into the light.
And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming
out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.»
Since Jesus doesn't come
out of the tomb saying, «There.
Jesus is experiencing something like a Gethsemane, for he knows that calling Lazarus
out of the tomb means that he must enter it.
Based on this tall tale when Jesus died the «saints» arose from the dead but stayed put at their graves until about 45 hours later when Jesus came back to life and came
out of his tomb.
If you care about him you should be worried for what his meeting with the guy who «came
out of the tomb» will be like.
53 They came
out of the tombs after Jesus» resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
Jesus wore white after He died and came back to life and walked
out of the tomb in which no one had been laid.
And going
out of the tomb they came into the house of the youth, for he was rich.
But three days after He was buried, he walked
out of his tomb, thereby defeating death with its own weapon.
They hear that he is to appear in Galilee; and they rush
out of the tomb in astonishment and fear.
The next paint to note is that this Marcan story nowhere implies that the body of Jesus came to life and walked
out of the tomb.
And one I was thinking about in connection with Matthew 27:52 - 53, where it seems that others were raised to life as soon as Jesus died, although they didn't come
out of their tombs until he rose again.
When he sees the strips of linen folded up into one place, he remembers that he himself came
out of his tomb, bound hand and foot, and had to be set free.
He has surmised what has happened, but he is hesitant to enter the tomb because he himself came
out of a tomb.
The Gadarene demoniac came running
out of the tombs to confront him, dying, «I adjure you by God, do not torment me (Mark 5:1 - 7; cf. Matt.
Did he come
out of the tomb laughing?
The awakening of the saints which immediately follows signals the beginning of this new creation: «And the tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints having been asleep were raised; and coming
out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered the holy city and were manifested to many» (27:53 - 3).
In every tomb the voice will be heard, «O dead, come
out of your tombs!»
Lord Carnarvon, the financial backer of the work of excavation, was said to have been stung by something that darted
out of the tomb when the closed opening was finally broken through.
«Jesus is
out of the tomb; God is no longer safely behind the curtain (torn asunder in the Temple as Jesus breathed his last),» he writes.
At the time of Jesus» death there was an earthquake (as not in the other gospels) and «many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming forth
out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city [note the Jewish expression] and appeared to many (27:52 - 3).
Yet, Protestant / evangelical Christians will believe as absolute fact, that a first century dead man walked
out of his tomb after three days of decomposing, ate a broiled fish lunch with his friends, and then levitated into outer space based on the testimony of... one..., possible, eyewitness» testimony!
«I don't know how my planting a tree today will relate to the wonderful trees that will be in God's recreated world... but I know that God's new world of justice and joy, of hope for the whole earth, was launched when Jesus came
out of the tomb on Easter morning.»
Say whatever you will, try and prove otherwise all you can, but it must have been something when Jesus walked
out of that tomb.
Jesus came into the world naked and died on the cross naked and walked
out of the tomb naked.
We are called to live as if the resurrection of Jesus actually happened, that it actually had transformative power, and that the process of all things being made new actually did begin when Jesus walked
out of the tomb that first Easter morning.
Only then can we come
out of that tomb as He did.
And I remember seeing also a postcard of Piero della Francesca, you know, the Arezzo mural of Christ coming
out of the tomb.
Not exact matches
Shouldn't you be etting ready to go praise your dead zombie guy for crawling
out of a cave
tomb 2000 years ago?
As Jesus promised, «those in the memorial
tombs will hear [Christ's] voice and come
out» by means
of a resurrection.
We will reflect on the woman who anointed Jesus at Bethany (Thursday), the suffering
of Mary
of Nazareth (Friday), the women who waited through a long Sabbath before heading
out to the
tomb on Sunday morning (Saturday), and the story
of Mary Magdalene (Sunday).
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.»
Since they set
out to abolish such later innovations as the venerating
of Islamic saints and visiting their
tombs, the Wahhabis came into direct conflict with the Shi'ites, who focus so much attention on the mausoleums
of their imams.
Much
of what we do as a church body is
out of ignorance; whether a large church building, or celebrating Christmas and Easter, all while we confuse would - be newcomers with mixed messages
of Christ's humility vs church wealth, Christmas trees vs a lowly stable, and egg - laying rabbits vs the empty
tomb.
The «Epworth Pulpit» was the
tomb of John Wesley's father from which the son preached in the churchyard when locked
out of the parish church in which he had been reared.
Rome (CNN)- The beatification
of Pope John Paul II this Sunday will probably be the biggest event in Rome since his death in April 2005, with at least 300,000 people expected to turn
out for the ceremony and more than 2 million to take part in beatification - related activities in Rome, including a vigil service on Saturday in Rome's Circus Maximus and visits to John Paul's
tomb.
There have been many attempts to work
out the details
of the events that led to belief in the resurrection
of Christ, even to reconcile the patently irreconcilable details
of the stories about the empty
tomb.
But most
of it has been tidied away, along with the crumbling and rather alarming
tombs in the grass around the building, which always seemed about to open and disclose their shrouded occupants, climbing
out into the modern day like a Stanley Spencer resurrection.
· «The women came
out and ran away from the
tomb because they were frightened
out of their wits; and they said nothing to a soul, for they were afraid» (Mk 16, 8).
It is significant that the earliest Gospel, Mark, uses the term «after three days» consistently in the prediction passages, but where these are quoted in Matthew or Luke the phrase has been changed to «on the third day».23 The change can be explained by saying that between the writing
of the first and the later Gospels the story
of the empty
tomb had become more widely known, and the phrase «after three days», as a dating
of the resurrection event, fell
out of use.
We can summarize the discussion up to this point by saying that the literary form
of Mark's
tomb pericope shows definite signs
of having developed in three stages, consisting
of two appendices with one third final addition (leaving aside the fact that in the second century a still further addition
of Mark 16:9 — 20 was made) and that because
of this, it may not have been part
of the author's original plan as he set
out to write his Gospel.
He was strongly opposed to the teaching
of some
of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom
of resurrection as an allegorical description
of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death
of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the
tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility
of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed
out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state
of preservation.
clumsily inserted into the Mary Magdalene story» probably
out of «a desire to make the apostles as well as a woman witness
of the empty
tomb».35 But the emphasis is now no longer on the emptiness
of the
tomb but on the way the linen cloths have been left lying.
Furthermore, the assertion that the women only realized when they were already on the way that they would need help to roll away the stone and gain access to the
tomb implies a degree
of thoughtlessness quite
out of the ordinary.
Led
out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but: «What after all are all these churches now if they are not the
tombs and sepulchers
of God?»
Holy Week is a preparation — regardless
of how faithless we may have been all year long — for the full life and experience
of the resurrected Lord who will again, like the faithfulness
of a sunrise, arise
out of the cold
tomb of our sin and narcissism.
you lock people
out of the kingdom
of heaven you make the new convert twice as much as a child
of hell you are blind guides... you clean the outside, but inside are full
of greed you are like whitewashed
tombs... you are descendants
of those who murdered the prophets.
As the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions have known for centuries, and many other churches have discovered too, the only way that this extraordinary narrative will yield its meaning is quite simply if we play the events at their original speed — God's speed, not ours — living in and through the events day by day: the grieving farewells, the betrayal and denial, the shuddering fear in the garden, the stretched -
out day
of torture and forsakenness, and the daybreak
of wonder, color and
tomb - bursting newborn life.
59 When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and laid it in his new
tomb which he had hewn
out of the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the door
of the
tomb, and departed.