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Posted on 11/25/2025 10:20:03 AM PST by Twotone
“At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.”- John 19:41
As a literary device, this description of the burial place of Jesus Christ is effective; it offers a contrast between the site of Jesus’s death at the crucifixion site of Calvary (also called Golgotha, both derived from the Latin for “place of the skull”) and a fertile garden, brimming with life. It also provides a cyclical shape to the final chapter of the Christ narrative, which begins with his arrest in the garden of Gethsemane.
So, as storytelling, this single sentence from the Gospel of John (the most recently written of the four canonical gospels, most scholars agree) has a substantial power to its brevity. But, as a historical record of where, exactly, one of the most famous men who ever lived was laid to rest, you’d be forgiven for finding it sorely lacking in detail.
Yet, thanks to a new discovery reported in the Times of Israel, that sentence might be key to confirming where the real man at the center of the Christian faith was placed after his famous crucifixion.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
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If it's empty, it just might be.
May be of interest ping...
What a nothing-burger of a click-bait article. Even the article debunks the sensationalistic claim of the headline.
Very unlikely.
There are abandoned tombs all over Israel.
The Aramaic on the wall said “I’ll be back”.
Thanks Twotone.
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