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.»
53 They came
out of the tombs after Jesus» resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
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).
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!
Not exact matches
Jesus wore white
after He died and came back to life and walked
out of the
tomb in which no one had been laid.
But three days
after He was buried, he walked
out of his
tomb, thereby defeating death with its own weapon.
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.
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?»
After weeks
of denials, Egypt's top archaeologist admitted yesterday that several ancient
tombs and «many» storerooms were damaged or looted during the recent chaos that swept Hosni Mubarak
out of office.