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John Dominic Crossan argued that Jesus's followers did not know what happened to the body. [ 96 ] [ note 8 ] According to Crossan, Joseph of Arimathea is "a total Markan creation in name, in place, and in function", [ 97 ] [ note 9 ] arguing that Jesus's followers inferred from Deut. 21:22–23 that Jesus was buried by a group of law-abiding ...
Martha laments that Jesus did not arrive soon enough to heal her brother ("if you had been here, my brother would not have died") and Jesus replies with the well-known statement, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."
Kris Komarnitsky, one the first proposers of this theory, says that while most scholars consider the resurrection belief a consequence of grief or bereavement visions, it is possible that the resurrection belief actually preceded and induced the post-mortem visions of Jesus. According to Komarnitsky, the cognitive dissonance reduction and a ...
According to this version of the stolen body hypothesis, some of the disciples stole away Jesus's body. Potential reasons include wishing to bury Jesus themselves; believing that Jesus would soon return and wanting his body in their possession; a "pious deceit" to restore Jesus's good name after being crucified as a criminal; or an outright plot to fake a resurrection. [3]
According to the proponents of the swoon hypothesis, the appearances of the risen Jesus to his disciples following his resurrection from the dead were merely perceived to be resurrection appearances by his followers; proponents of the swoon hypothesis believe that Jesus allegedly fell unconscious ("swooned") on the cross, survived the ...
Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. ... according to which it will happen through re-creation of the flesh. [41]
But "resurrection" never meant "life after death," or "going to heaven." Plenty of people in Jesus’ day believed in "life after death," in some form, but were still shocked by talk of ...
"Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them" tell the apostles what happened, but are not believed. Peter goes to the tomb, sees the linen cloths, and is "amazed." [14] "And all that had been commanded them they told briefly to those around Peter." [15] First appearance of Jesus