PROOF – THE BODY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN STOLEN The only way, humanly speaking, a body could be removed from such encrusted wrappings, would be by cutting the cloth from end to end and laying back each side so the body could be pulled from its wrappings. All the wrappings followed the contours of the body it would be a tight solid covering that would protect the body, and from which the body could not be pulled by any human means. LIQUID SPICES SETTLED AND SOLIDIFIED AROUND THE BODY SHAPEĪll these liquid spices would soon harden and would cause the cloth wrappings to become an encrusted cocoon around the body of Jesus. As they wrapped the cloth strip around and around Jesus’ body, they poured in 100 pounds of spices into the wrappings and upon the body. John 19:39-40 tells us that Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea brought about a 100 pounds of myrrh and aloes spices and wound the body of Jesus in the cloth wrappings with the spices. John saw these “linen clothes lying” undisturbed, just as they had been when the body of Jesus lay within them, but now there was no body, the linen clothes were empty! Like a giant bandage, these wrappings were wound around the body of our Lord, beginning at This was the method they used to prepare the body of Jesus for burial. They would wrap the body with a wide long cloth, somewhat like a bandage is applied to an injured leg or arm the wrappings continued until they reached the neck. “Linen clothes” refer to the manner in which they prepared the body for burial in that day. The word “lying” does not merely refer to the fact that they were “remaining on the floor of the sepulcher,” but rather, the word used, means that they were “lying precisely as the body had lain in them.”The grave clothes were in exactly the position the body had occupied. When John saw “the linen clothes lying,” he believed. These grave garments were arranged in a unique way. Scripture clearly tells us that when John “saw the arrangement of the grave clothes, he believed, beyond all doubt, that Jesus was risen.” It was the linen strips that caused him to believe. Why so great a detailed account? Because it was important! It is the sole purpose of nine verses of the Gospel history. John covers the exact arrangement of the clothes. And they saw the clothes in a certain order. When Peter and John entered the sepulcher, they did not see the body of Jesus but they did see the grave clothes. WHAT DID JOHN SEE IN THE GRAVE CLOTHES THAT WE MISSED? And he, “stooping down and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying, yet went not in.”But Peter “following him, went into the sepulcher, and sees the linen clothes lie, and the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.”Īfter which John also went in, “and he saw and believed.” Instantly the two apostles ran to the sepulcher – John arrived first. Mary assumed the body was stolen, saying: “ They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him.” Her conclusion was that enemies had taken it away. Then very early on Sunday morning, Peter and John heard from Mary Magdalene that the body of Jesus, placed in the sepulcher on Friday afternoon, was no longer there. John 20:6-8 – “Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie…then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and HE SAW, and believed.” Esteemed Jewish scholar Simon Greenleaf, founder of Harvard Law School, meant to use his “laws of evidence” to challenge the theory of the resurrection, and became a believer.
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