Between the years 30 and 33 AD, Jesus was crucified and the event has been confirmed
by non-Christian sources.
Jesus was arrested, tried, and sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged and then crucified.
He was stripped of his clothing, offered wine mixed with myrrh or gall, and then hung between
two convicted thieves at 9 am on the Friday before Passover.
According to the Gospel of mark, Jesus died 6 hour later at 3pm.
As the bible states, Jesus rose from the dead 3 days after he was crucified, on a Sunday.
This is why Christians celebrate Easter.
Both Jesus’s baptism and his crucifixion are said to be the two historically certain
facts about Jesus.
The question is, where did the body of Jesus lie before he supposedly rose from the dead?
There are several places believed to be the temporary tomb of Jesus, and we will be talking
about them, right now on life’s biggest questions.
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According to the gospel of john, after Jesus’ death, his body was removed from the cross
and buried in a rock-hewn tomb.
Jesus spent 72 hours in this tomb.
The exact place that Jesus was crucified is not entirely certain, but if we are going
off of the biblical accounts, it was outside the city walls of Jerusalem.
This location was accessible to passers-by and observable from some distance away.
The historian Eusebius identified the location as being north of mount Zion, which is consistent
with the two main sites believed to be associated with Jesus’ tomb.
Cavary is the English name for the site, translated from Latin as being the word for skull.
All four gospels describe the location of jesus’ death and crucifixion as being the
place of skull.
The reason for the name is unknown, it could be that Cavary was named after a local cemetery,
and it also could have been a public execution site.
The place believed to be Jesus tomb by most is the Church Of The Holy Sepulchre in the
Christian quarter of Jerusalem’s old city.
If you go to Jerusalem, it’s one of the most well-known tourist-sites, and it’s
often full of people.
The church of holy Sepulchre is a site of pilgrimage for Christians.
The tomb is over 1700 years old, and the limestone bed within it dates back to 300 years after
the death of Jesus.
According to legend, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Constantine, Helena, came across the tomb
in the year 327.
Constantine was the Roman emperor that made Christianity legal throughout the Roman empire,
and he also converted to Christianity before he died in the year 337.
He made it so that the romans were responsible for protecting the tomb of Jesus, and they
also built a shrine and church above it.
That being said, over the last 1700 years, as with many structures in the holy land,
the church above the tomb has been destroyed and rebuilt several times.
The temporary tomb that was believed to have housed the body of Jesus before he rose from
the dead has been sealed with marble slabs since the year 1555 AD, in order to keep it
from being damaged.
But a team of scientists associated with national geographic recently opened the tomb, and inside
it they found a limestone bed that Jesus’ body may have laid upon.
Tests were done on the limestone bed to find out the last time it was exposed to light,
and it was around the year 345 AD, which was right after emperor Constantine’s reign.
So the timing does match up, and that makes it a viable candidate for being the tomb of
Jesus.
But the truth is, no one knows for sure if the tomb really did hold the body of Christ.
And it’s quite possible that Helena was mistaken when she came across the site where
the church of the Holy Sepulchre stands.
As I said before, according to biblical accounts, the location of the tomb of Jesus was outside
the city walls of Jerusalem.
The Church of Holy Sepulchre is not outside the city walls of Jerusalem.
A second site, known as Gordon’s cavalry and the garden tomb is located north of the
old city, close to the Damascus gate.
It is considered by some to be the real burial and resurrection site of Jesus Christ.
It hasn’t been well-known for very long, it was actually discovered in 1867.
One of the reasons why it’s a viable candidate is because Hebrews 13:12 states that Jesus’
burial place is outside the city walls, unlike the holy sepulchre.
The garden tomb is also very olds, it dates back to at least the 9th to 7th centuries
BC, which corresponds to the old testament area.
There is also said to be a channel that the tombs closing stone was rolled on.
Just as Jesus’ tomb is described in the bible, its carved out of rock and the burial
chamber is on the right.
Which do you think is more likely to be the tomb of Jesus?
Let us know in those comments.
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