Historical Evidence of Jesus' Resurrection: The Tomb

Greetings and welcome to the Faith Chapel Podcast. My name is Jason and I am

the pastor of Faith Chapel.

This is the second episode in the series where we are exploring the historical

evidence for the resurrection of Jesus.

The specific subject for this episode is looking at the historical evidences of the tomb of Jesus.

Can we trust the stories of Jesus' burial based on the historical and archaeological evidence.

Thanks for joining us today. Last week, we began by asking why should we study

the resurrection, and we're going to begin in that same location today.

The idea of the resurrection is central to the Christian faith,

and one of the reasons that it is central to the Christian faith is because

it's something that Jesus claims, that he is going to die,

that he is going to resurrect from the grave.

And if he is to be believed about all the other things that he teaches and does

and says about himself and God the Father,

then this also needs to be something that we take seriously and we look at because

he claims these things. He claims his resurrection.

So we're going to take a look at a few of the examples where Jesus claims that

he is going to resurrect.

And then we're going to go into today

the idea of the burial of Jesus and the evidence that we have for the burial

of Jesus to solidify what the Bible says in the evidence that we have for it,

how the evidence that we have outside of the Bible.

Solidifies what the Bible says about the death and the burial of Jesus.

So first, again, we're going to start with the idea of Jesus claiming that he

is going to rise from the dead.

So in Mark 10 verses 33 and 34, Jesus says these words, listen,

Mark 10:33

we're going up to Jerusalem where the son of man will be betrayed to the leading

priests and the teachers of religious law.

They will sentence him to die and hand him over to the Romans. Listen.

We're going up to, oh, I just put it there twice.

Then it goes down to, they will mock him, spit on him, flog him with a whip and kill him.

But after three days, he will rise again.

So here Jesus is claiming that he's going to die.

He's going to be handed over, but he will rise again.

In Mark 8, 31, we have these words.

Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible

things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law.

He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead.

Then again in Mark, this time in 9, chapter 9, verse 31, we read,

For he wanted to spend more time with his disciples and teach them.

He said to them, the son of man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his

enemies. He will be killed.

But three days later, he will rise from the dead.

So there are three instances in the gospel of Mark alone where Jesus claims

that he is going to die, but he is going to rise.

He is very specific and says three days later, he will rise from the dead.

He uses the example of Jonah and that sign as Jonah was in the belly of the

great fish for three days and three nights.

So the son of man will be on the in the earth for three days and three nights.

Over and over again, Jesus is claiming these words.

His death and His resurrection is something that's going to happen to Him.

And last week, we talked also about how each gospel is its own witness,

its own testimony of Jesus, and taking them as one lump sum is not the right way to look at it.

It'd be like a court of law having four witnesses and using that as one witness.

That's not the way the court of law would look at it. There would be four witnesses there.

And so we have four witnesses here.

So in one of these witnesses in Mark, which is what we've already covered,

these are three times where Jesus is going to say it.

But he also is attested to saying these things in other gospels as well.

In Matthew chapter 16, verse 21, this is another example of Jesus claiming to rise from the dead.

Matthew 16:21

From then on, Jesus began to tell his disciples plainly that it was necessary

for him to go to Jerusalem and that he would suffer many terrible things at

the hands of elders, the leading priests and the teachers of religious law.

He would be killed, but on the third day, he would be raised from the dead.

So Matthew remembers Jesus as declaring this.

This is the second witness of this. Then we have Luke who was not an eyewitness,

but he interviewed eyewitnesses and Luke records this in Luke 18 31 to 33.

Taking the 12 disciples aside, Jesus said, listen, we're going up to Jerusalem

where all the predictions of the prophets concerning the son of man will come true.

He will be handed over to the Romans and he will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit upon.

They will flog him with a whip and kill him, but on the third day he will rise.

So it's not only just three different times in one source that we have in Mark,

but also the next source of Matthew and the following source of Luke.

All of these instances are Jesus claiming that he is going to die and he is

going to rise from the dead.

Jesus clearly thought the resurrection would happen, and if it didn't happen.

Then that would discredit some of his teaching, because this is clearly what

he saw as happening in his life.

So, last week we focused on the death of Jesus and the swoon theory that Jesus

just fainted on the cross,

or he was in some of this drug-induced coma where he looked like he was dead.

But we debunked that by the evidence that we have, and so we looked at that

particular part of the resurrection story.

Today we're going to look at the account of Jesus' burial.

We're going to look at the four eyewitness testimonies of this burial and see

what we have as evidence to corroborate what they are saying.

And so we're going to first look at what the accounts actually say.

And so these are the gospel accounts of the burial of Jesus.

So in Mark chapter 15, verses 42 to 47, we read this.

Mark 15:42–47

This all happened on Friday, the day of preparation, the day before the Sabbath.

As evening approached, Joseph of Arimathea took a risk and went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.

Joseph was an honored member of the high council, and he was waiting for the kingdom of God to come.

Pilate couldn't believe that Jesus was already dead, so he called for the Roman

officer and asked if he had died yet.

The officer confirmed that Jesus was dead, so Pilate told Joseph he could have the body.

Joseph bought a long sheet of linen cloth.

Then he took Jesus' body down from the cross, wrapped it in a cloth,

and laid it in a tomb that had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a

stone in front of the entrance.

Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joseph, saw where Jesus's body was laid.

So here we see that Mark is recording that a guy by the name of Joseph of Arimathea,

an honored member of the high council, more than likely that's the Sanhedrin, he approached Pilate.

So he had some recognition with Pilate. he was a well-to-do member of society,

and he was looking for the kingdom of God, which he believed that Jesus was going to fulfill.

We learn here that the tomb had been carved out of the rock.

This wasn't just a cave that they laid his body in. This was an intentional burial spot.

And we know that Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joseph,

saw where this tomb was. Those are things that we can see in this passage.

Then we go on to Matthew 27 and see how Matthew records the burial of Jesus.

This is verses 57 through 61 of Matthew 27.

As evening approached, Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea who had become a follower

of Jesus, went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.

And Pilate issued an order to release it to him.

Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a long sheet of clean linen cloth.

He placed it in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock.

Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance and left.

Both Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting across from the tomb and watching.

So in this account, we learn that Joseph was a rich man, which we could have

inferred from the last one, but Matthew plainly tells us that he was a rich man.

And we learn that it was his own new tomb. So it was carved out of rock recently

to when Jesus was buried.

That's some new information that we learned from Matthew's account.

Then we go to Luke and his account. This is from Luke chapter 23, verses 50 to 56.

Luke 23:50–56

Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph.

He was a member of the Jewish high council, but he had not agreed with the decision

and actions of the other religious leaders.

He was from the town of Arimathea in Judea, and he was waiting for the.

He went to Pilate and asked for Jesus's body. Then he took the body down from

the cross and wrapped it in a long sheet of linen cloth and laid it in a new

tomb that had been carved out of the rock.

This was done late on Friday afternoon, the day of preparation,

as the Sabbath was about to begin.

As his body was taken away, the women from Galilee followed and saw the tomb

where his body was placed.

They went home and prepared Spice's anointments to anoint his body,

but by the time they were finished, the Sabbath had begun, so they rested as required by the law.

So from this one, we learn that this was done on late on Friday afternoon.

After the women had seen where the body was being put, they went home and they

started to make the embalming spices that they used back in that time to anoint the body.

And by the time that those were done, it was too dark.

The Sabbath had already begun. The Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday,

what we would call Friday night, but they would call it Saturday morning.

When the sun goes down, it's the next day. And so this is what they encountered.

It was late on Friday afternoon, and they were not able to embalm that body

to anoint it with spices that night.

Then the last account that we have is from John chapter 19, verses 38 to 42.

John 19:38–42

Afterwards, Joseph of Arimathea, who had been a secret disciple of Jesus because

he feared the Jewish leaders, asked Pilate for permission to take down Jesus' body.

When Pilate gave permission, Joseph came and took the body away.

With him came Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus at night.

He brought about 75 pounds of perfumed ointment made from myrrh and aloes.

Following Jewish burial custom, they wrapped Jesus' body with the spices in

long sheets of linen cloth.

The place of the crucifixion was near a garden where there was a new tomb never used before.

And so, because it was the day of preparation for the Jewish Passover,

and since the tomb was close at hand, they laid.

So a few extra details are added here.

One is that the place of the crucifixion was near a garden where there was a new tomb.

And so here we have the place of the crucifixion and Jesus's burial being relatively

close together. We're not told exactly how close they are together,

but we are told that they are near one another.

And so it's in a garden, it's near a garden, and it's a new tomb.

Again, we can see overlap in these stories, which helps us to verify some of

the instances, but there are nuances. There are facts in one that are not in another.

But the main idea is that Jesus's body was put in a new tomb.

So it was roughly made about the time of Jesus's death, which is in the 30s AD.

There are two dates, and most people that I see lean to AD 33 as the date,

as the year of Jesus's death.

And so that's what we would expect if we find the tomb of Jesus,

that it would be near date to the 30s AD, when Jesus was actually crucified and buried.

We see that it was near a garden, and we know that it was a rich man's tomb

that Joseph had made for himself.

If the tomb has been found, there are some facts that we can cross-check,

that we can verify with to help us to know if the accounts are true and if we have the right tomb.

So those are the accounts that we have, the four eyewitnesses,

and now we need to cross-reference them with what we know about the burial place of Jesus.

So this first set come, the information I received comes from three different places.

One is the YouTube channel Expedition Bible by Joel Kramer.

We have a book by Euspius, who is a church historian, and he died in 339 AD.

The life, or the The book is called The Life of Constantine.

And then we also are going to see some information from the church father,

Jerome, who died in 420 AD.

So these are the sources that we are using for this bit of information that

we have, that we are going over now.

So the church father, sorry, in AD 130, there was a Roman emperor by the name of Hadrian.

In 60 years prior to when Hadrian comes on the scene, Jerusalem is ransacked and it is raised.

It is pretty much leveled.

All of it is leveled. And during this time though,

the followers of Jesus knew where the burial place was and they would go back

there time and time again to remember and to hold this place as a holy site.

Well, when Hadrian came on the scene and wanted to rebuild Jerusalem,

he wanted to make it a city that had Roman deities.

And so he built a temple to Jupiter, which is the main god in the Roman pantheon.

And he also made a shrine in this area to Venus, who is like the goddess of love in this area.

These are Roman deities that he wanted to build a shrine for.

And when he was looking in this destroyed city about where he was going to find

it or where he was going to put this temple to start his city,

he picked a particular spot to do this.

So Joel Kramer states this, because this was the venerated place in the city,

this was the place that people were visiting frequently to worship Jesus as the king of kings.

So what he wanted to do, and that's the he there is Hadrian,

what he wanted to do was to supplant that venerated place with his own place of worship.

So way back in 130 AD, we're talking a hundred years, a century after Jesus's death and burial.

Hadrian wanted to rebuild this city and he took the place to build a temple

to Jupiter and to Venus that was the most venerated spot so that Christians

would not go back there to worship Jesus.

They wanted the worship of Jupiter. They wanted the worship of Venus.

They're Roman deities. And so he decided to build a temple to.

Jerome, the church father, also confirms this when he writes,

From the time of Hadrian to the reign of Constantine.

A period of about 180 years, the spot which had witnessed the resurrection was

occupied by a figure of Jupiter.

While on the rock where the cross had stood, a marble statue of Venus was set

up by the heathen and became an object of worship.

The original persecutors indeed supposed that by polluting our holy places,

they would deprive us of our faith in the passion and in the resurrection.

So the passion here refers to Jesus's death.

It's called the Passion of the Christ, the movie, because this is how Jesus

showed his love and passion for us by taking our sins upon him on the cross.

And so when it says the passion there, it's referring to his death and resurrection.

And Jerome here takes this to a place.

And remember, Jerome died in the early 400s.

And so he was about 400 years removed from the time of Jesus.

But even at that time, he has been passed down history before him that this

was the site where this temple to Jupiter and Venus was put,

this was the site where Jesus had died.

So, early church father saying this was it, and that's the...

Where was it, that the marble statue of Venus was put on the place where the cross had stood.

So he's corresponding with the biblical narrative that the place of the crucifixion

and the burial of Jesus were close at hand.

They were both on this temple area.

And so this is solidifying what the church had handed down.

And this is what we have written from Jerome for us.

Euspius goes into a little bit more detail. He lived a bit closer to the time when Hadrian did this.

He's about 200 years after that Roman emperor.

But Euspius states this in his book about the life of Constantine.

Accordingly, they, the Romans, brought a quantity of earth from a distance with

much labor and covered the entire spot.

Then having raised this to a moderate height, they paved it with stone,

concealing the holy cave behind this massive mound.

So he came in and he's giving us a detail of not was it completely eradicated

the stones of Jesus, but what they did was they came in and they put huge amounts of dirt there.

They made it so there's a foundation that covers the place of Jesus's burial

so that they could ultimately build this temple to Jupiter and Venus.

And so this gives us more information about where the burial place of Jesus was.

So Euspius continues, and he says, Thereupon the emperor issued sacred edicts,

and when he had provided an abundant supply of all the things required for the project,

he gave orders that a house of prayer worthy of God should be erected round

about the cave of salvation.

And on a scale of rich and empirical costliness.

So here, Euspius is telling us that when Constantine came on the scene,

they knocked down that temple to Jupiter and Venus, and they started to erect

a place of prayer worthy of God.

And they used opulence to make it. It was ornate.

It was beautiful. It was worthy of God.

So we have, archaeologically speaking, let me rephrase that,

we have, historically speaking, accounts of where the tomb of Jesus was.

His burial place was, first of all, covered up by the Roman Emperor Hadrian with this temple.

And then, after that was knocked down, It was the site of a house of prayer that was worthy of God.

And these things are happening in the three and four hundreds BC that we are,

that our information is coming from.

So we have good historical evidence, reported evidence about where the tomb of Jesus is.

And it comes from about three to four hundred years after Jesus's death and burial.

All right. So we know where it is based upon the evidence that we have here.

Now, what kind of evidence does this

provide for us? So the next round of information comes from two sources.

One is Capturing Christianity, the YouTube channel, and Cameron Bertuzzi.

And the other one is a news article from Archeology News Online magazine that

was published on April 6th of 2025, so this year.

So what they did is Archaeology News published findings of a group of archaeologists

that were working on what they call the Holy Sepulcher.

This is the area where Jesus' tomb, according to Euspius and according to Jerome,

where they know, where they believe that the tomb of Jesus was.

And as they were excavating underneath it, as they were getting ready for a

renovation project, they allowed researchers down in there, archaeologists down

in there to look at it and to find what they could find.

And so this is what Archaeology News says in their April 6th article.

Archaeologists digging beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

have unearthed a finding that

provides strong evidence for a significant detail of the New Testament,

the presence of a garden near the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ.

This discovery gives strong verification of John 19.41,

which states, Now in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden,

and in the garden, a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

So they, in their research, uncover evidence of a cultivated garden underneath

the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,

where Jerome and Euspius is saying Jesus's tomb was.

And this is solidifying John's account by saying there was a garden nearby.

We found these cultivated fields.

And the amazing thing is that if Hadrian had not put that foundation,

had not buried this place, more than likely most of this evidence would have been lost.

And so it is very fascinating that as he was trying to snuff out Christianity,

he actually gives later generations of Christians the evidence of this garden in this place.

So from Capturing Christianity, that YouTube channel, Cameron says,

Now, when I say they discovered a garden, don't picture like your grandma's backyard tomatoes.

We're talking about a 2000 year old agricultural plot, olive trees,

grapevines and all perfectly matching the biblical description in John 1941.

And so what they found there from archaeobotanical analysis,

which is studying ancient plant remains, it revealed preserved olive pits,

grape seeds and pollen that were trapped in sealed soil layers beneath the church floor.

And these weren't just random seeds scattered about.

They were neatly organized into terraced planting beds lined by low stone walls.

Bertuzzi says this is exactly what you'd expect to see in a cultivated garden from the first century.

So it's not just a couple of seeds that they found.

They found this low stone wall that you would expect to find in first century

gardening. They found the terraced planting beds.

They found the seeds neatly organized. They found this exactly like you would

find in the first century. It is solid evidence.

This area had a garden like John 1941 described.

And then he goes on and he says, As if that weren't enough, research found several

cut-out tombs carved directly into the bedrock.

And these weren't just caves cut out by nature.

They were purposefully hand-chiseled chambers dating precisely to the era around

Jesus' crucifixion. Again, just as the Gospels describe.

So underneath this Church of the Holy Sepulchre, they found these cut out tombs.

They were not man-made caves.

They were, just like the Gospels said, they were hand cut.

Later on, he's going to quote something, but I'm going to state it here too.

But the awesome thing to go along with this,

this is already amazing evidence, But another amazing piece of evidence is that

because they have designs and plans of other tombs in that area of the time of Jesus,

they can tell that these were expensive carved tombs.

These burial places were for rich people, just as Joseph of Arimathea is described.

It is amazing. But he says it gets even more intriguing.

This, I already went over that one, but he says, this ancient garden layer sits

directly beneath the breed laid down by the Roman emperor Hadrian around 135 AD.

Hadrian built a pagan temple right over this spot, presumably to erase early

Christian memory of this site.

Ironically, by burying it, he actually ended up preserving exactly what the

Christians have been remembering all along.

The precise spot where Jesus was crucified and lain to rest.

And just to sweeten the deal, beneath the church's central shrine,

archaeologists even found the original circular marble foundation from Emperor

Constantine's 4th century church, directly linking today's basilica with early Christian worship.

So the idea behind what is being disclosed in this find is that this is where

Hadrian built this temple mound.

This is where Constantine built this house of prayer.

This is the spots. They have evidence from Constantine's house of prayer.

They have evidence from Hadrian's temple, and they have the tombs that are underneath

all of this area. It is incredible.

It is an incredible find. And it links everything early Christianity says about the tomb of Jesus.

So what does this validate? Let's go over this.

So the earliest written records indicate this is the site of Jesus's burial.

This is coming from Euspius. This is coming from Jerome.

These are in the fourth and fifth centuries, but it's still the earliest written

evidence that we have that they say this is the spot of his burial.

The biblical evidence shows that the crucifixion and burial happened outside

of the walls of Jerusalem. This is something that the Gospels,

the New Testament claims. It happened outside the walls of Jerusalem.

And before AD 70, this area had been annexed into Jerusalem.

And this area was being habited for a population who lived inside the walls

of Jerusalem because it had been annexed into that area.

But prior to that, in the 30s, it was not in the city of Jerusalem.

It was outside the walls, as the New Testament claims.

So dating methods show that these tombs were made around the time of Jesus's

death in the early 30s AD.

So when you look at dating, they have a time frame of when this is probably

happening. And what they have found is that this time frame matches the time frame of Jesus.

So when they date the tombs in this area, they are dating them back to Jesus's death date.

Archaeology confirms that these tombs match the expensive design that only the

elite, the rich, could have afforded, which the Bible confirms Joseph of Arimathea as being.

Mark states that the tombs were hand-cut and not natural caves.

The tombs discovered were made by human instruments.

And these findings show a high possibility or plausibility of Jesus being buried

quickly and near his crucifixion site, which the Bible also states.

And so this is the evidence that we know where Jesus was buried.

He is in this, and in the sloping landscape where we're going to uncover more

and more evidence of the resurrection,

this helps to affirm the stories of the gospel.

They are believable. They are true.

They are reporting real things that happened, which builds the case and helps

us to be more sure of Jesus's not just death,

but also his resurrection, because that's what they claim as well.

Do we have any questions or comments or any interactions with anything that

was presented tonight or anything else Christianity?

Not related necessarily directly to the evidence provided, which is compelling.

Jesus said, how many times I'm going to be killed, buried because he's going to rise from death.

Why weren't his disciples sitting on the curb, watching that stone,

watching that tomb, wait for him come out?

It's a valid point. But putting yourself in their shoes, they were scared.

They were scared out of their mind that the person who they record as saying,

the Father and I are one, he died, which I don't think was in their paradigm.

Even though he claimed it on multiple occasions, I just don't think it was in

their understanding, their way of realizing what was going to happen.

And so I think they were scared and their worldview was being shattered, completely shattered.

So I get your point. He said it and he did it. Why were they so surprised?

I realize I'm being a Monday morning quarterback. bag I realized that 2000 years

later I got a lot more information than they did I'm not scared not as scared.

But still if they had believed him.

You would have thought they would have posted somebody there,

at least. Hide behind a tree, whatever.

I seem to, or tell me if I'm mistaken,

but I seem to remember that the disciples remembered after He resurrected that

He had said He would, that all of these things happened.

And I wonder if, like God did in the Old Testament, sometimes closes our eyes

until He's ready for us to perceive Him.

Perhaps if they had known, they would have tried to interfere in some way,

and it wouldn't have been as clear that it was from God.

I really appreciate a passage in Moses's writings.

I'm pretty sure it's in Deuteronomy where he says, guys, you have spent 40 years out in the wilderness.

Your shoes, you didn't have to change them. They never wore out.

Your clothes, they never wore out.

You had food and you had water in the desert.

Have eyes that see God. Have ears that hear God.

And so I truly believe that is a condition of humanity that we easily forget

what God has done and forget what God has said.

And to your point earlier, John 2, 22 says, after he was raised from the dead,

his disciples remembered he had

said this, and they believed both the scriptures and what Jesus had said.

So yes, that is recorded in the gospel of John.

So they found several new tombs in the area. How do they know which one?

I don't believe they know exactly which one. There is, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher,

this area right here, which dates back to Constantine, that this area in particular

is the one that is venerated as it.

My guess is tradition is what they're basing their opinion on there.

There's one of them that the church is built on top of. Yes.

Let me just look how God—it seems like our world is just crazy.

And getting crazier. And what does God do but this year say,

why don't you show you where the tomb and the crucifixion took place?

He left a lot of good crumbs behind.

He knows us. He knows our weaknesses, and he's put things in place so that we

could be reminded and reassured that,

yes, Your faith and your belief is psalmist.

This isn't a fantasy. This is something real.

To go back, Tom, I did remember something about this particular tomb in the Holy Sepulcher.

They found that there was, I want to say concrete or something like that.

They found in the tomb, the rock face dates back to the 30s AD.

But in the crevices of where they would have laid the body, there was concrete,

or that's what I'm remembering, something that they found that dates back to Constantine's time.

And so, for whatever reason, they're the ones, Constantine in the late 300s

is the one who really venerated that one spot as the one that Jesus was laid on.

And they would have picked that one because that's the one that Hadrian tried to cover up.

Yeah. Which was the one that people were going to. Yes, it was. Yeah.

I've read a little bit about the burial practices.

And if I understand correctly, there was a place that they placed the body and

they waited until then it pretty much rotted away and only the bones were left.

And then they took that, the bones, and they put them in a box. Orsuary. Orsuary.

Yeah, because the making a

tomb was super expensive and it had to be hand chiseled most of the time.

And the practice of the Jewish people was to lay someone in there,

wait till they decompose, and then use it again.

That is, they would put them in an ossuary box.

The reason that I know about ossuary boxes is because in the 1900s,

there was one found with a cross etched on it, dating to around 40 AD.

And it is the earliest known association of archaeological evidence of someone

being associated with Jesus in their death.

And so that was the process. They would wait till the decaying process was over.

They would come in, take the bones, put them in this box, leave the box in that

tomb, but allow that to be a space for other people. I'm also really impressed

about the garden that they've found.

That's just such a nice little detail to have found, you know,

great lines and olive trees and...

This is so wonderful, things like this, because throughout my life,

I've had people ask me several times, well, how do you know that the crucifixion

was real? How do you know?

And when you have archaeological evidence, as well as the evidence in the Bible,

a lot of them would poo-poo the Bible, but there's archaeological evidence,

and that's harder to say no to.

Especially when it matches detail for detail what's in the Bible. Yeah, yeah.

It's like, oh, that's interesting. We found exactly what the Bible said we'd find. Hmm.

I still think that this is extra ammunition.

When I was in the chapel public and my students, when they asked me, No, but you don't.

They wanted to know, they wanted something that.

Which is fantastic. It's just this fantastic information to have.

Thank you again for joining us in our discussion on the burial place of Jesus.

This is just one more layer of discovery to find out if, historically speaking,

we can say the evidence leads us to conclude that Jesus rose from the grave.

Since the evidence is significant in knowing where the burial of Jesus was,

we will next look at the evidence that shows that the apostles shared this story

first in the place where it would be hardest to share if it weren't true.

The place that had the tomb of Jesus, Jerusalem.

What historical evidence does this provide us? Join us to find out.

Have a great day. Thank you.