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  2. Tomb of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Tomb of Jesus. Jesus is laid in the tomb and covered in incense. Station 14 of the Calvary of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (Villamelendro de Valdavia). The tomb of Jesus is the place where Jesus was entombed after his death. [1] According to the gospel accounts, the tomb originally belonged to Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy man who ...

  3. Stolen body hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The stolen body hypothesis posits that the body of Jesus Christ was stolen from his burial place. It theorises that his tomb was found empty not because he was resurrected, but because the body had been hidden somewhere else by the apostles or unknown persons. Both the stolen body hypothesis and the debate over it presume the basic historicity ...

  4. Burial of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The burial of Jesus refers to the entombment of the body of Jesus after his crucifixion before the eve of the sabbath.This event is described in the New Testament.According to the canonical gospel narratives, he was placed in a tomb by a councillor of the Sanhedrin named Joseph of Arimathea; [2] according to Acts 13:28–29, he was laid in a tomb by "the council as a whole". [3]

  5. Stone slab believed to have held Jesus' body uncovered - AOL

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    According to USA Today, Christians typically believe that Jesus Christ was crucified, and his dead body was laid on a limestone slab; three days later, women intending to anoint his remains ...

  6. Swoon hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Jesus' dead body, as per the Gospel narratives, is not reported to be seen by eyewitnesses after his crucifixion. No elaborate funeral arrangements and no public viewing of the corpse are recorded to have taken place. Jesus' body is removed from the cross into the custody of his executioner, Pontius Pilate.

  7. Crucifixion of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The crucifixion of Jesus was the death of Jesus by being nailed to a cross. [note 1] It occurred in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33. It is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, and later attested to by other ancient sources. Scholars nearly universally accept the historicity of ...

  8. Lost body hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    e. The Lost body Hypothesis tries to explain the empty tomb of Jesus by a naturally occurring event, not by resurrection, fraud, theft or coma. Only the Gospel of Matthew (28:2) [1] mentions a 'great earthquake' on the day of Jesus' resurrection. The preceding crucifixion quake was accompanied by darkness, splitting of the rock and opening of ...

  9. Pietà - Wikipedia

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    Michelangelo 's Pietà in Saint Peter's Basilica, 1498–1499. The Pietà (Italian pronunciation: [pjeˈta]; meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus Christ after his Descent from the Cross. It is most often found in sculpture. The Pietà is a specific form of ...