High Day Sabbath started at sunset. Handling dead bodies was not allowed on the Sabbath. This evidence cannot be clearer, the Sabbath after The Lord Jesus Christ's death and burial was not a Saturday Sabbath but a mid-week Holy Day Sabbath.

Back to the earthquake in Matthew's account - why is it recorded there and not in the others? Simple, it is there to explain how the seal of the tomb door was broken. Here are the verses that precede Matthew 28:1:

Matthew 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. 62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

First we can see that Joseph of Arimathaea rolled the stone across the entrance to the tomb after The Lord was laid there. Then we have the Pharisees who arrange, via the Romans, to have it sealed. Sealed with what we may ask? Concrete that's what, the Romans invented the stuff and were master craftsmen in its use so we can be almost 100% sure they used it here to seal the door of

Before I continue with article 2, I wish to bring alive the full blown human experience of this the most momentous event in history. I wish to encapsulate the scene, and bring alive the enormous emotions caused by these awesome moments in time when these select few followers of The Lord Jesus Christ were exposed to massive trauma, upheaval, upset and distress. This then followed by the other extreme of overwhelming joy, gladness and elation. The trauma of witnessing The Lord Jesus Christ's heinous violent death and then to come to the realisation, after only 72 hours, He was no longer dead after all, but raised from the dead. The pendulum swing of the emotions experienced by these faithful people cannot, in reality, be measured nor fully comprehended by us - we weren't there!! This story can never be truthfully or fully told without these powerful emotions and human frailty being brought to mind and continually kept in the back of our minds as we read this magnificent account of history. The pain, the fear, the uncertainty, the anguish, the desolation and the heartbreak that these wonderful people endured is an example to us all as True Believers. Remember too they were not, as yet, Born Again, they were only disciples.

With that said, I will now continue with the four Gospel accounts of this story that some say contradict each other. Many of the supposed anomalies between the four accounts stem from the fact that Mary Magdalene or the two Mary's, individually and dually, made more than one visit to the tomb. One visit was made when the tomb was still sealed and they then went home again as they could not administer their spices. The account doesn't say this directly but this must have been the case or they held a thirty plus hour vigil at the tomb until late Saturday evening. This is explained in Matthew 28 but we can't see it because of the Good Friday to Sunday lie clouding our minds. We all think that Sunday morning is the only time these ladies came to the tomb but this, plainly, is not the case. For the evidence, I will return to the Greek mss for Matthew 28:1 where it tells us quite clearly the two Mary's came to the tomb after a Sabbath had ended and at the same time leading towards another Sabbath day - the usual weekly Sabbath, and here it is:

Evening yet of-Sabbaths the on-lighting (lighting up) into one of-Sabbaths came Mariam (Mary) - Mariam (Mary) the Magdalene and the other Mariam (Mary) to behold the sepulchre.

There it is - The evening (end) of one of the Sabbaths leading or dawning or approaching into another of the Sabbaths - two Sabbaths nearly on top of one another. Now this is nothing like the story we have always been led to believe is the Truth. Notice too what they do, they come to look at the tomb, but there is nothing they can do other than look. The next verse mentions an earthquake but there is no evidence to suggest how long the time span was between the two Mary's arrival and the commencement of the earthquake. Am I saying they weren't present? Yes. What I am saying is they returned home and came again approximately thirty hours later when they witnessed the fact that stone had already been removed. This fact is supported by the other accounts. We must also take into account that the earthquake is not mentioned in any of the other Gospels, why is that? All will be revealed.

Before I do that I wish to return to Matthew 28:1 because another thing we should notice about the Greek rendition of Matthew 28:1 is the fact that the word 'Sabbath' as written in the KJV is wrong, it is actually plural - Sabbaths. This simply means there was more than one Sabbath the week of Our Lord's death and resurrection. This is not a supernatural revelation it's simple knowledge, the kind of simple knowledge that any Bible scholar worth his salt could easily research and discover for himself. That's if he was interested in doing so of course.

So let's just recap here for a moment. The Lord Jesus Christ was the Passover Lamb to end all Passover lambs - no more animal sacrifices were required. The Passover was the time of year when The Lord Jesus Christ died - not Easter, Easter is a man made pagan religious fabrication. The Passover is, and was, always followed directly by the feast of Unleavened Bread with its extra Sabbath High Days. This means there are always Sabbaths (plural) at this time of the year. These Sabbaths are in addition to the weekly seventh day Sabbath or Saturday Sabbath as we know it today.

The second thing we must take on board is the understanding that none of these Sabbaths refer to Sunday. Sunday was never a Sabbath nor has it ever been a Sabbath especially in the first century. Men of religion devised the Sunday Sabbath nearly three hundred years later in 325 AD at the council of Nicea under the authority of that murdering illegitimate Constantine, but I am not getting into that subject now. Suffice it to say all the Sabbaths mentioned in Holy Scriptures are Israelite/Jewish Sabbaths not 'Christianised' Sunday non-Sabbaths. This means we are dealing with the seventh day of the week not the first day of the week.

I must now clarify an important point. Am I saying here that as Christians we should keep the Israelite/Jewish Sabbath and not Sunday? No, a thousand times no, Sabbath keeping like animal sacrifices, circumcision, tithing and dietary laws are all part of the Old Covenant and we should not keep any regulated Sabbath day - Saturday or Sunday. We have now entered The Lord's Sabbath rest if we are Born Again. Every day is now a Sabbath day but if you wish to keep a day Holy or special to The Lord then do so, but don't make it binding or ritualistic on yourself and especially not on anyone else. You are now free under Grace. OK, back to the story line. The term 'evening yet of Sabbaths' tells us two vital things but first we must understand that Israelite/Jewish Sabbaths begin at sunset, not in the morning nor at midnight. This means that the two Mary's came to the tomb during the night as it approached the dawn hence the term 'evening yet of Sabbaths' or after the Sabbath, but which Sabbath?

In order to explain which Sabbath, we now need to know a little more about the Holy day festivals that God instructed the Israelites and Jews to keep. These same festivals are those that the Jews still observe to this day, especially the Holy days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread which follows straight on from Passover. The feast of Unleavened Bread lasted a week and it always began with a Sabbath and ended with a Sabbath - it still does. If this festival ran, let's say, from Thursday to Thursday of the week that Our Lord died and rose again, then both these Thursday's would be Sabbaths and be kept in the same way as the weekly Saturday Sabbath, but more so because they were high day holidays or high Sabbaths - special Sabbaths or Feast Sabbaths. This means there are always three Sabbaths through the week of Unleavened Bread. This in turn means the week of Our Lord's death and resurrection was no exception to this arrangement. John's Gospel account gives us evidence that one of these Holy day high days took place the same week as Our Lord's death and resurrection and I will quote it here:

John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, [for the feast of Unleavened Bread] that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. [Square brackets mine] There we are, there's the evidence that this was the week of Unleavened Bread with one of two midweek Sabbaths which fell commencing the evening of the same day Our Lord died on the cross (late Wednesday afternoon). He was then taken down from the cross and buried before that High Day Sabbath started at sunset. Handling dead bodies was not allowed on the Sabbath. This evidence cannot be clearer, the Sabbath after The Lord Jesus Christ's death and burial was not a Saturday Sabbath but a mid-week Holy Day Sabbath.

Back to the earthquake in Matthew's account - why is it recorded there and not in the others? Simple, it is there to explain how the seal of the tomb door was broken. Here are the verses that precede Matthew 28:1:

Matthew 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. 62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

First we can see that Joseph of Arimathaea rolled the stone across the entrance to the tomb after The Lord was laid there. Then we have the Pharisees who arrange, via the Romans, to have it sealed. Sealed with what we may ask? Concrete that's what, the Romans invented the stuff and were master craftsmen in its use so we can be almost 100% sure they used it here to seal the door of t

the case. For the evidence, I will return to the Greek mss for Matthew 28:1 where it tells us quite clearly the two Mary's came to the tomb after a Sabbath had ended and at the same time leading towards another Sabbath day - the usual weekly Sabbath, and here it is:

Evening yet of-Sabbaths the on-lighting (lighting up) into one of-Sabbaths came Mariam (Mary) - Mariam (Mary) the Magdalene and the other Mariam (Mary) to behold the sepulchre.

There it is - The evening (end) of one of the Sabbaths leading or dawning or approaching into another of the Sabbaths - two Sabbaths nearly on top of one another. Now this is nothing like the story we have always been led to believe is the Truth. Notice too what they do, they come to look at the tomb, but there is nothing they can do other than look. The next verse mentions an earthquake but there is no evidence to suggest how long the time span was between the two Mary's arrival and the commencement of the earthquake. Am I saying they weren't present? Yes. What I am saying is they returned home and came again approximately thirty hours later when they witnessed the fact that stone had already been removed. This fact is supported by the other accounts. We must also take into account that the earthquake is not mentioned in any of the other Gospels, why is that? All will be revealed.

Before I do that I wish to return to Matthew 28:1 because another thing we should notice about the Greek rendition of Matthew 28:1 is the fact that the word 'Sabbath' as written in the KJV is wrong, it is actually plural - Sabbaths. This simply means there was more than one Sabbath the week of Our Lord's death and resurrection. This is not a supernatural revelation it's simple knowledge, the kind of simple knowledge that any Bible scholar worth his salt could easily research and discover for himself. That's if he was interested in doing so of course.

So let's just recap here for a moment. The Lord Jesus Christ was the Passover Lamb to end all Passover lambs - no more animal sacrifices were required. The Passover was the time of year when The Lord Jesus Christ died - not Easter, Easter is a man made pagan religious fabrication. The Passover is, and was, always followed directly by the feast of Unleavened Bread with its extra Sabbath High Days. This means there are always Sabbaths (plural) at this time of the year. These Sabbaths are in addition to the weekly seventh day Sabbath or Saturday Sabbath as we know it today.

The second thing we must take on board is the understanding that none of these Sabbaths refer to Sunday. Sunday was never a Sabbath nor has it ever been a Sabbath especially in the first century. Men of religion devised the Sunday Sabbath nearly three hundred years later in 325 AD at the council of Nicea under the authority of that murdering illegitimate Constantine, but I am not getting into that subject now. Suffice it to say all the Sabbaths mentioned in Holy Scriptures are Israelite/Jewish Sabbaths not 'Christianised' Sunday non-Sabbaths. This means we are dealing with the seventh day of the week not the first day of the week.

I must now clarify an important point. Am I saying here that as Christians we should keep the Israelite/Jewish Sabbath and not Sunday? No, a thousand times no, Sabbath keeping like animal sacrifices, circumcision, tithing and dietary laws are all part of the Old Covenant and we should not keep any regulated Sabbath day - Saturday or Sunday. We have now entered The Lord's Sabbath rest if we are Born Again. Every day is now a Sabbath day but if you wish to keep a day Holy or special to The Lord then do so, but don't make it binding or ritualistic on yourself and especially not on anyone else. You are now free under Grace. OK, back to the story line. The term 'evening yet of Sabbaths' tells us two vital things but first we must understand that Israelite/Jewish Sabbaths begin at sunset, not in the morning nor at midnight. This means that the two Mary's came to the tomb during the night as it approached the dawn hence the term 'evening yet of Sabbaths' or after the Sabbath, but which Sabbath?

In order to explain which Sabbath, we now need to know a little more about the Holy day festivals that God instructed the Israelites and Jews to keep. These same festivals are those that the Jews still observe to this day, especially the Holy days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread which follows straight on from Passover. The feast of Unleavened Bread lasted a week and it always began with a Sabbath and ended with a Sabbath - it still does. If this festival ran, let's say, from Thursday to Thursday of the week that Our Lord died and rose again, then both these Thursday's would be Sabbaths and be kept in the same way as the weekly Saturday Sabbath, but more so because they were high day holidays or high Sabbaths - special Sabbaths or Feast Sabbaths. This means there are always three Sabbaths through the week of Unleavened Bread. This in turn means the week of Our Lord's death and resurrection was no exception to this arrangement. John's Gospel account gives us evidence that one of these Holy day high days took place the same week as Our Lord's death and resurrection and I will quote it here:

John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, [for the feast of Unleavened Bread] that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. [Square brackets mine] There we are, there's the evidence that this was the week of Unleavened Bread with one of two midweek Sabbaths which fell commencing the evening of the same day Our Lord died on the cross (late Wednesday afternoon). He was then taken down from the cross and buried before that High Day Sabbath started at sunset. Handling dead bodies was not allowed on the Sabbath. This evidence cannot be clearer, the Sabbath after The Lord Jesus Christ's death and burial was not a Saturday Sabbath but a mid-week Holy Day Sabbath.

Back to the earthquake in Matthew's account - why is it recorded there and not in the others? Simple, it is there to explain how the seal of the tomb door was broken. Here are the verses that precede Matthew 28:1:

Matthew 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. 62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

First we can see that Joseph of Arimathaea rolled the stone across the entrance to the tomb after The Lord was laid there. Then we have the Pharisees who arrange, via the Romans, to have it sealed. Sealed with what we may ask? Concrete that's what, the Romans invented the stuff and were master craftsmen in its use so we can be almost 100% sure they used it here to seal the door of

ent. The Lord Jesus Christ was the Passover Lamb to end all Passover lambs - no more animal sacrifices were required. The Passover was the time of year when The Lord Jesus Christ died - not Easter, Easter is a man made pagan religious fabrication. The Passover is, and was, always followed directly by the feast of Unleavened Bread with its extra Sabbath High Days. This means there are always Sabbaths (plural) at this time of the year. These Sabbaths are in addition to the weekly seventh day Sabbath or Saturday Sabbath as we know it today.

The second thing we must take on board is the understanding that none of these Sabbaths refer to Sunday. Sunday was never a Sabbath nor has it ever been a Sabbath especially in the first century. Men of religion devised the Sunday Sabbath nearly three hundred years later in 325 AD at the council of Nicea under the authority of that murdering illegitimate Constantine, but I am not getting into that subject now. Suffice it to say all the Sabbaths mentioned in Holy Scriptures are Israelite/Jewish Sabbaths not 'Christianised' Sunday non-Sabbaths. This means we are dealing with the seventh day of the week not the first day of the week.

I must now clarify an important point. Am I saying here that as Christians we should keep the Israelite/Jewish Sabbath and not Sunday? No, a thousand times no, Sabbath keeping like animal sacrifices, circumcision, tithing and dietary laws are all part of the Old Covenant and we should not keep any regulated Sabbath day - Saturday or Sunday. We have now entered The Lord's Sabbath rest if we are Born Again. Every day is now a Sabbath day but if you wish to keep a day Holy or special to The Lord then do so, but don't make it binding or ritualistic on yourself and especially not on anyone else. You are now free under Grace. OK, back to the story line. The term 'evening yet of Sabbaths' tells us two vital things but first we must understand that Israelite/Jewish Sabbaths begin at sunset, not in the morning nor at midnight. This means that the two Mary's came to the tomb during the night as it approached the dawn hence the term 'evening yet of Sabbaths' or after the Sabbath, but which Sabbath?

In order to explain which Sabbath, we now need to know a little more about the Holy day festivals that God instructed the Israelites and Jews to keep. These same festivals are those that the Jews still observe to this day, especially the Holy days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread which follows straight on from Passover. The feast of Unleavened Bread lasted a week and it always began with a Sabbath and ended with a Sabbath - it still does. If this festival ran, let's say, from Thursday to Thursday of the week that Our Lord died and rose again, then both these Thursday's would be Sabbaths and be kept in the same way as the weekly Saturday Sabbath, but more so because they were high day holidays or high Sabbaths - special Sabbaths or Feast Sabbaths. This means there are always three Sabbaths through the week of Unleavened Bread. This in turn means the week of Our Lord's death and resurrection was no exception to this arrangement. John's Gospel account gives us evidence that one of these Holy day high days took place the same week as Our Lord's death and resurrection and I will quote it here:

John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, [for the feast of Unleavened Bread] that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. [Square brackets mine] There we are, there's the evidence that this was the week of Unleavened Bread with one of two midweek Sabbaths which fell commencing the evening of the same day Our Lord died on the cross (late Wednesday afternoon). He was then taken down from the cross and buried before that High Day Sabbath started at sunset. Handling dead bodies was not allowed on the Sabbath. This evidence cannot be clearer, the Sabbath after The Lord Jesus Christ's death and burial was not a Saturday Sabbath but a mid-week Holy Day Sabbath.

Back to the earthquake in Matthew's account - why is it recorded there and not in the others? Simple, it is there to explain how the seal of the tomb door was broken. Here are the verses that precede Matthew 28:1:

Matthew 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. 62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

First we can see that Joseph of Arimathaea rolled the stone across the entrance to the tomb after The Lord was laid there. Then we have the Pharisees who arrange, via the Romans, to have it sealed. Sealed with what we may ask? Concrete that's what, the Romans invented the stuff and were master craftsmen in its use so we can be almost 100% sure they used it here to seal the door of

elite/Jewish Sabbaths begin at sunset, not in the morning nor at midnight. This means that the two Mary's came to the tomb during the night as it approached the dawn hence the term 'evening yet of Sabbaths' or after the Sabbath, but which Sabbath?

In order to explain which Sabbath, we now need to know a little more about the Holy day festivals that God instructed the Israelites and Jews to keep. These same festivals are those that the Jews still observe to this day, especially the Holy days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread which follows straight on from Passover. The feast of Unleavened Bread lasted a week and it always began with a Sabbath and ended with a Sabbath - it still does. If this festival ran, let's say, from Thursday to Thursday of the week that Our Lord died and rose again, then both these Thursday's would be Sabbaths and be kept in the same way as the weekly Saturday Sabbath, but more so because they were high day holidays or high Sabbaths - special Sabbaths or Feast Sabbaths. This means there are always three Sabbaths through the week of Unleavened Bread. This in turn means the week of Our Lord's death and resurrection was no exception to this arrangement. John's Gospel account gives us evidence that one of these Holy day high days took place the same week as Our Lord's death and resurrection and I will quote it here:

John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, [for the feast of Unleavened Bread] that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. [Square brackets mine] There we are, there's the evidence that this was the week of Unleavened Bread with one of two midweek Sabbaths which fell commencing the evening of the same day Our Lord died on the cross (late Wednesday afternoon). He was then taken down from the cross and buried before that High Day Sabbath started at sunset. Handling dead bodies was not allowed on the Sabbath. This evidence cannot be clearer, the Sabbath after The Lord Jesus Christ's death and burial was not a Saturday Sabbath but a mid-week Holy Day Sabbath.

Back to the earthquake in Matthew's account - why is it recorded there and not in the others? Simple, it is there to explain how the seal of the tomb door was broken. Here are the verses that precede Matthew 28:1:

Matthew 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. 62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

First we can see that Joseph of Arimathaea rolled the stone across the entrance to the tomb after The Lord was laid there. Then we have the Pharisees who arrange, via the Romans, to have it sealed. Sealed with what we may ask? Concrete that's what, the Romans invented the stuff and were master craftsmen in its use so we can be almost 100% sure they used it here to seal the door of

High Day Sabbath started at sunset. Handling dead bodies was not allowed on the Sabbath. This evidence cannot be clearer, the Sabbath after The Lord Jesus Christ's death and burial was not a Saturday Sabbath but a mid-week Holy Day Sabbath.

Back to the earthquake in Matthew's account - why is it recorded there and not in the others? Simple, it is there to explain how the seal of the tomb door was broken. Here are the verses that precede Matthew 28:1:

Matthew 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. 62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

First we can see that Joseph of Arimathaea rolled the stone across the entrance to the tomb after The Lord was laid there. Then we have the Pharisees who arrange, via the Romans, to have it sealed. Sealed with what we may ask? Concrete that's what, the Romans invented the stuff and were master craftsmen in its use so we can be almost 100% sure they used it here to seal the door of the tomb. This means that at the end of three days and three nights the seal would have set hard and would have been impossible to break open without tools. Notice too that the two Mary's were at the tomb when The Lord was placed inside - this was their first visit to the tomb and is supported by Mark 15:47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

I will end this article with another verse from Mark which corroborates the evidence in Matthew: Mark 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

I will expound further in my next article - please stay with it.

Charles Crosby