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The Burial of Jesus<\/em> (and a recent review of it) have been mentioned on Lingamish<\/a>. Just for clarification, the post there says:<\/p>\n

\u201chis body later dumped in a common grave\u201d \u2013 I think that something like this is what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cwhere the disciples then retrieved it and gave it a proper burial\u201d \u2013 I am persuaded that the disciples wanted to do this<\/em> but am also persuaded that they were unable to<\/em>. Had they been able to, I think they would have told a different story than the one found in Mark. Indeed, the way that later Gospels rewrote the story in Mark shows how much they wished they could have done this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At any rate, if there\u2019s one thing that both David and I agree on, it is that there is inevitable uncertainty<\/a> about some things that we wish we could be certain about.<\/p>\n

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The Burial of Jesus (and a recent review of it) have been mentioned on Lingamish. Just for clarification, the post there says: \u201chis body later dumped in a common grave\u201d \u2013 I think that something like this is what happened. \u201cwhere the disciples then retrieved it and gave it a proper burial\u201d \u2013 I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nUnseen Footprints<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Burial of Jesus (and a recent review of it) have been mentioned on Lingamish. 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