The site venerated as the tomb of Jesus is encased in structures like a Russian nesting doll. According to the Bible, Jesus was laid to rest on a stone platform in a cave hewn out of a rock wall. In 326, thefirst Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine, sent his mother, Helena, as ...
Mary’s gesture inaugurates the sequence of sacrificial acts culminating with her Lord’s burial in the stone-cold tomb. The feet she anoints will soon walk the Way of the Cross for the salvation of the world. That was Jesus’ chosen destiny, and the ...
Multiple denominations have minimized and trivialized the act of Christ by making him a deity who is immortal. I would like to make it clear to people that Jesus was indeed aman of flesh and bloodwho fully desired to do the will of hisheavenly Father, theAlmighty God, and therefore complet...
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supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there. When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also...
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Jesus would die on a cross in a matter of hours. He would be buried in a borrowed tomb. But 3-days later, on a Sunday morning 2,000 years ago, a squad of the Roman guards would come huffing into Caiaphas’ house, march down the hall to where he was and say, “The tomb where ...
It was a “vain thing” for Roman soldiers to guard the tomb, lest the body of Jesus leave it. All these were “vain things” because none of them to the least extent determined what happened to the One against whom they were directed. The Jews’ conspiracy against Jesus was just as ...
Photo Credit: Getty Images Matthew 28 1After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the ston...
“We consolidated the holy rock. We opened the tomb of Christ in order to protect it from the infection of grout. Then we reinstalled the stone slabs after inserting joints of titanium,” Moroloulou said on Monday. As part of the restoration project, members of the National Technical Univer...