There probably was no tomb. The most common thing done with crucified people was to leave them up as a warning.
and we have no idea what the apostles claim. There are meetings by them on this part of Jesus's life.
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Subduction Zone wrote……. There probably was no tomb. The most common thing done with crucified people was to leave them up as a warning.
and we have no idea what the apostles claim. There are meetings by them on this part of Jesus's life.
The Anointed……. Well atheists like yourself who are incapable of comprehending the truths that are revealed in the scripture, which in their ignorance they attack, might have no idea what the apostles claim, but the believer knows that John the beloved apostle of Jesus, wrote in his memoirs that Joseph of Arimathea, who is believed to be the biological son of Joseph ben Jacob and half-brother to Jesus, having been born of the same womb, buried Jesus in a tomb nearby which had never been used.
Matthew is a disciple of Jesus, also called Levi and a relative of Alphaeus and is generally believed to be the author of the Gospel of Matthew. Matthew 27: 60; Has Joseph of Arimathea, placing the body of Jesus in his own family tomb, which he himself had recently hewn out of a solid rock. Joseph, the son of Mary was younger than Jesus, so we can assume he wasn’t thinking of his own imminent death, but perhaps that of his father.
Mark has Joseph burying Jesus in a tomb, while Luke has Jesus being buried in a tomb that had never been used.
As you don’t believe anything recorded in the scriptures, why would you believe that Jesus was buried in a tomb, and like I have said before, who, but another non-believer gives a rat’s tail what you believe.
It was not uncommon for men of Galilee in those days to carry three names, one in Hebrew, one in Greek, and one in Aramaic. The son of Mark Anthony, ‘Alexander Helios III,/Heli,’ who sired Joseph the biological father of Jesus, would have been seen as a father of renowned. Alphaeus and Cleophas, in Young’ s Analytical Concordance Subject Guide, are said to be one and the same person: From the Subject Guide; where it is written; “
Cleophas, husband of Mary, also called Alphaeus.”
Joseph, the biological father of Jesus, was the son of Alexander Helios/Heli a father of renowned, who is said to have been murdered by Herod the Great in 13 BC. Cleophas, the Masculine form of Cleopatra, is the Greek, meaning: “Of a renowned father,” and Alphaeus, is the Aramaic of the same meaning: “Of a renowned father.”
Thomas=Tau’ma, the Aramaic for twin, is also called Didymus, which is the Greek for twin, he is Thomas/twin, Didymus/twin, Jude, the half-brother of Jesus and the son of the carpenter. A local tradition of eastern Syria identifies the Apostle Jude with Jude Thomas who was called ‘The Twin’ also known as Thomas (Aramaic), Didymus (Greek), and Jude (Hebrew.)
Even the opening words of the gospel of Thomas, read; “These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke, and which ‘Didymus Judas Thomas’ wrote down.” Revealing that the
COPY of the Gospel of Thomas, which was dated to the middle 2nd century A D, was a copy by later scribes, of the words that ‘Didymus Jude Thomas’ had previously written down.
Knowing that in ART, Thomas Didymus Jude, the son of Alphaeus/Cleophas, is depicted with a carpenter’s rule and square. In "The Acts of Thomas, sometimes called by its full name, "The Acts of Judas Thomas," 2nd-3rd century CE, "The Apostles cast lots as to where they should go, and to Thomas, brother to Jesus fell India. Thomas was taken to King Goddophares the ruler of Indo-Pathian Kingdom as an architect and carpenter by Habban.”
We must now ask the question, "Who is the Carpenter to whom Mary was married at that time, when her family consisted of Jesus, James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Was it Joseph the son of Jacob from the tribe of Judah, who was her first legitimate husband, or was it Joseph/Alphaeus/Cleophas the second husband of Mary and the Father of James the younger, the biological son of Mary and the youngest boy in the family, plus Simon and Judas, who is also called Thomas Didymus Jude, meaning twin?
Knowing from scripture that Mary had remarried and had borne James the younger of her three biological sons, to Alphaeus/Cleophas, who it would appear, had sired two sons to a previous marriage and they were Simeon and Jude, the two half-brothers of Jesus, we must now ask the question, did Joseph, Mary’s first husband and Father to young Joseph the second son of Mary of whom we know so little, “DIE,” or was he still alive at the time of the death of Jesus?
If this was the case, and the Joseph of Arimathea, who is believed to be the half-brother of Jesus, who laid the body of his brother in his
own family tomb which had never been used, would suggest that his father was still alive, then we would be faced with the fact that Joseph must have divorced Mary at some period, issuing her with a bill of divorce, a copy of which, would have been kept in the filing systems of the scribes in the Temple, and it would appear that Joseph ben Jacob had raised his son and namesake "Joseph the son of Mary" by himself: this being the reason why so little is known of Joseph the son of Mary and why James the younger is always placed before his older brother Joseph.
Because James the son of Alphaeus, who is also named Cleophas, is, according to Paul, the Brother (Of the same womb) to Jesus, and James the brother of the Lord was a young man when Jesus began his ministry at about 30 years of age, it becomes apparent that Mary had married Cleophas/Alphaeus when Jesus was a young boy.
But if Mary had remarried while her past husband was still alive, which was absolutely legal according to the law of Moses as it is today, she would have been seen to be living in a state of adultery according to the new and controversial teaching of Jesus, which stated that anyone who remarries while their current spouse is still alive, they are committing adultery, and the Jewish authorities would have been right onto him.
This of course, is exactly what we see in scripture. The religious authorities of those days were always looking for ways that they might trap Jesus according to his own teaching and then accuse him to the people, and it was after Jesus had been preaching that if a divorced person remarried while their original spouse was still alive, they were committing adultery, it was then that the hypocritical priests who had access to the documents in the Temple, and copies of the bills of divorce that had been issued to the women when divorced by their husbands, thought that they had the means whereby they could make Jesus appear to the people to have one law for himself and another for everyone else. See John chapter 8.
Pointing to his mother, who was with the women who had followed him from Galilee, who was among the crowd that were listening to the great teacher who was setting Israel on fire, they said to Jesus in their most patronising voice, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the very act of adultery.” (
This was according to the new teaching of Jesus) “In our law Moses commanded that such a woman must be stoned to death. Now, what do you say?” They said this in order to trap Jesus and accuse him to the people.
Jesus knew what those hypocrites were up to, those hypocrites who thought nothing of stoning the innocent Stephen to death, were bound by the law of Moses to stone this woman to death if she had indeed been caught in the very act of sexual intercourse with a man other than He, too who she was legally married at that time, which was not the case, as she was guilty of no crime according to the temporal laws of the land.
Jesus turned the tables on them by saying, “He who is without sin may cast the first stone.” Then he bent down and wrote something in the dust, perhaps he may have written, “As ye judge, so shall ye be judged.” Most men in those days, who had been given by Moses the right to issue their wives with a bill of divorce, had done so and taken younger wives, and according to the new teaching of Jesus would have been as guilty as the woman that they were accusing, and the hypocrites knowing full well that the woman had not broken the Law of Moses and was innocent of any crime according to their own teachings, they were forced to walk away with their tails between their legs, thereby admitting to the people that they were not without sin.
Jesus then turned to his mother and asked, “Is there no one left to condemn you?” No one Lord she answered. “Well then,” said Jesus, “I do not condemn you either. Go, but don’t sin again,” and it was for this reason that the mother of Jesus chose to remain separate from her husband Cleophas and his children, Simeon, Judas, and James the younger: and this is the reason why, on the cross, Jesus entrusted his mother, “Mary the wife of Cleophas,” into the care of his beloved disciple John.
Her husband Cleophas/Alphaeus and his sons, James, Simeon and Jude, did not abandon Mary, but rather, it was she who abandoned them, in obedience to her firstborn.
It was the custom of the disciples after the death of Jesus, to meet and worship with the mother and family/sisters of Jesus. See Acts 1: 14. Then after Peter was miraculously released from prison, Peter ran straight to the house where he knew the faithful would be gathered in prayer for his safety, straight to the House of Mary the Mother of young John, who had been surnamed "MARK," which, according to Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible, means, "Hammer, or the Hammerer," and John surnamed "Mark," is associated with young John the beloved disciple, who Jesus had surnamed "Son of thunder," who was adopted by Mary the mother of Jesus.
Later on, Joseph the Levite who had come from Cyprus in the land of Macedonia, and was given the surname ‘Barnabas ‘ took his half-sister Mary, who was the daughter of his Father (Heli) and with young John, who was surnamed "Mark," they moved up into the land of Pamphylia, where today, in the town of Ephesus the ancient grave sites of Mary the mother of Jesus and of John surnamed Mark, can still be visited.
[anepsios] appears only the one time in the New Testament: In Young’s Literal Translation its meaning is “Nephew,” and in the King James Version, it is translated “Sister’s son.” Marcus, sister’s son to Barnabas, or Mark the son to the sister of the Levite who came from Cyprus, Joseph/Cleopas/Alpheaus, who was surnamed ‘Barnabas’ by the apostles.
