- Joined
- Mar 29, 2013
- Messages
- 35,135
- Reaction score
- 5,606
- Gender
- Female
- Political Leaning
- Undisclosed
Which apostles personally witnessed the empty tomb and recorded it? AFAIK none, but I could be wrong. If so, please provide a link to the original document. Thanks in advance.
What non-Christian sources are there for an empty tomb?
Lol. How could you have missed this....if indeed you had done a decent amount of reading?
Mary Magdalene (and those she referred to as "we"), had seen the tomb empty otherwise she wouldn't have said, "they had taken the Lord out of the tomb and we don't know where they have put Him." Definitely she and at least another woman ("we"), saw that the body was gone!
And then there was Peter, followed by the "other" disciple, whom was described as the one Jesus loved
The description of the scene was vividly detailed, therefore we have to assume that the one who'd relayed or recorded this message was also
with Peter and the "other" disciple.
John 20
20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.
4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.
6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,
7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen.
8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed.
9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
Last edited: