Okay, here's a question for the forum. Who do you think buried Jesus? According to Acts 13:29 it was the Jewish authorities who took Jesus from the tree and laid him in a tomb. This is a plausible explanation for what happened, because the type of tomb cited in the gospels was believed to have been loaned out to Jews by the Jewish authorities - after which the families would take custody of a body and move it to their own tomb or grave. They did this because burying bodies along with doing other work was forbidden on the Sabbath.
The gospels on the other hand claim that a disciple took possession of the body and put it in his own tomb. But critics have pointed out that the gospel writers blamed the Jewish authorities for the death of Jesus, not the Roman authorities who were the ones really to blame. Because of this early anti-Semitic belief, details that showed any good will of the Jewish authorities might have been changed by early Christian thought before the gospels were written down, making the explanation that a disciple took the body less plausible.
Another possibility of course is that the Romans took the body down and buried it in a mass grave somewhere.
Or that the family took it and laid it to rest.
The gospels on the other hand claim that a disciple took possession of the body and put it in his own tomb. But critics have pointed out that the gospel writers blamed the Jewish authorities for the death of Jesus, not the Roman authorities who were the ones really to blame. Because of this early anti-Semitic belief, details that showed any good will of the Jewish authorities might have been changed by early Christian thought before the gospels were written down, making the explanation that a disciple took the body less plausible.
Another possibility of course is that the Romans took the body down and buried it in a mass grave somewhere.
Or that the family took it and laid it to rest.
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