"WHO MOVED THE STONE?" or "who ROLLED away the
stone?" (Mark 16:3) is a question which has worried theologians
for the past two thousand years.

I would like to reveal in this post some of the lies told about the supposed crucifixion/resurrection of Jesus
by looking onto the behind the scene event of that period.

It was Sunday morning, according to the Bible, the first day of
the week, when Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus
(John 20:1). The first question that bedevils the mind is:-

Q1: WHY DID SHE GO TO THE TOMB?
Ans: The Gospel writers say that she went to "anoint" him.
The Hebrew word for anoint is "masaha", which means - 'to
rub', 'to massage', 'to anoint'. The word and its meaning are
the same in the Arabic language also. From this root word
"masaha" we get the Arabic word "MASEEH" and the
Hebrew "MESSIAH" both meaning the same thing - "the
anointed one" which is translated into Greek as "Christos"
from which we derive the word Christ.

Q2: DO JEWS MASSAGE DEAD BODIES AFTER THREE
DAYS?
Ans: "No!"

Q3: DO MUSLIMS MASSAGE DEAD BODIES AFTER THREE
DAYS?
Ans: "No!"

Q4:DO CHRISTIANS MASSAGE DEAD BODIES AFTER
THREE DAYS?
Ans: "No!"
It is common knowledge that within three hours after death,
rigor mortis sets in - the breaking up of the body cells - the
hardening of the body. In three days the corpse starts rotting from within. If
we massage such a rotting body, it will fall to pieces.

Q5: DOES IT MAKE SENSE THAT MARY MAGDALENE
WANTS TO MASSAGE A ROTTING DEAD BODY AFTER
THREE DAYS?
Ans: It makes no sense, unless we confess that she was
looking for a L-I-V-E Jesus, not a dead one. You will recognise
this fact for yourself on analysing her reactions towards Jesus
when she eventually saw through his disguise. You see, she
had seen signs of life in that limp body when it was taken
down from the cross. She was about the only woman beside
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus who had given the final
(?) rites to the body of Jesus. This man NICODEMUS,
somehow, has been deliberately blotted out by the synoptists.
The Gospel writers of Matthew, Mark and Luke are totally
ignorant of this devoted and self-sacrificing disciple of Jesus.
His name is NOT even mentioned in the first three Gospels in
ANY context. "It is difficult to avoid concluding that the
omission in the synoptic tradition of the mysterious
disciple was intentional", says Dr Hugh J Schonfield, one of
the world's leading Biblical scholars.

When Mary of Magdala reached the tomb, she found that the
stone had already been rolled away, and the winding sheets bundled on the ledge within the
sepulchre. The question now arises:

Q6: WHY WAS THE STONE REMOVED, AND WHY WERE
THE WINDING SHEETS FOUND UNWOUND?
Ans: Because it would be impossible for any tangible material
body to come out with the stone blocking the opening, and the
same physical body could not walk out with the winding sheets
encasing the body. For a resurrected body, it would have been
unnecessary to remove the stone or to unwind the winding
sheets. Probably having the resurrected, immortalised body, or
the spirit of man in mind, a poet said: "STONE WALLS DO NOT
A PRISON MAKE, NOR IRON BARS A CAGE".

While the poor, dejected Mary was investigating the sepulchre,
Jesus was watching her from the vicinity. Not from heaven, but
from terra firma, from mother earth. We must remember that
this tomb was a privately owned property belonging to his
"secret disciple" Joseph of Arimathea - who was a very rich,
influential Jew, and one who could afford to have carved a big
roomy chamber, out of a rock which according to Jim Bishop (a
Christian scholar of note) was 5 feet wide by 7 feet high by 15
feet deep with a ledge or ledges inside. Around this
tomb was this "secret disciple's" own vegetable garden. It is
hardly expected of any Jew or Gentile to grow vegetables 5
miles out of town for other peoples' sheep and goats to graze
upon! Surely, this husbandman must have provided his
labourers with the gardeners' quarters to protect his own
interests, and perhaps he also had his 'country home' around
the place where he could relax with his family during the
weekends.
Jesus was watching his lady disciple out of whom he had cast
out seven devils. He comes up to her. He finds her crying. He
questions her, "Woman, why weepest thou? Whom
seekest thou?" (John 20:15).

Q7: DOSEN'T HE KNOW? WHY DOES HE ASK SUCH A
SEEMINGLY SILLY QUESTION?
Ans: He knew why she was crying, and he knew who she was
looking for and he was not asking any silly questions. Actually,
he was pulling her leg, figuratively of course! He knew that she
was looking for him in the tomb, and not finding him there,
was crying in her disappointment. He also knew that she would
not be able to see through his disguise. Though he had been
through an ordeal, he still had that sense of humour to ask
her, "Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?
"SHE SUPPOSING HIM TO BE THE GARDENER, SAITH UNTO
HIM" (John 20:15).

Q8: WHY DID SHE THINK THAT HE (JESUS) WAS A
GARDENER? DO RESURRECTED BODIES LOOK LIKE
GARDENERS?
Ans: Can you imagine the scene on the RESURRECTION DAY,
that you, dear reader, will be made to look like a "gardener"
and your father-in-law will also be transformed into a
"gardener" and your son-in-law will also be made to look like
a "gardener" and your beloved wife will be left in confusion to
find her husband! Does this make sense? No! The resurrected
body will be you, yourself! Everyone will readily recognise you.
It will be the REAL you and not your camouflage. Never mind
at what age or under what condition one dies, everyone will
know one another. Then why did Mary think that Jesus was a
"gardener"?
Ans: Because Jesus was DISGUISED as a gardener.

Q9: WHY WAS HE DISGUISED AS A GARDENER?
Ans: Because he was AFRAID of the Jews.

Q10: WHY WAS HE AFRAID OF THE JEWS?
Ans: Because he had not DIED and was not RESURRECTED. If
he had DIED and if he was RESURRECTED, he would not have
any reason to be AFRAID. Why? Because the resurrected
body can't DIE twice. Who says so? The Bible says so: ". . . .
it is ordained unto all men ONCE to die, and after that
the judgement." -
(Hebrew 9:27).
The idea that the resurrected person cannot die
TWICE is further supported by what Jesus Christ had most
authoritatively pronounced regarding the resurrection.
The learned men of the Jews came to Jesus with a poser, a
riddle. They said that there was a woman who had seven
husbands in turn. "In the resurrection therefore whose
wife shall she be of the seven? For they all had
her." (Matthew 22:28). Jesus could have brushed off the Jews
with some curt retort because here was another of their tricks
to catch him out. Instead, he has enshrined for us the clearest
statement in the Bible regarding the resurrected soul. He said,
"Neither shall they die any more, for they are equal unto
the angels, and the children of God, for such are the
children of the resurrection" (Luke 20:36).
The learned men of the Jews came to Jesus with a poser, a
riddle. They said that there was a woman who had seven
husbands in turn. "In the resurrection therefore whose
wife shall she be of the seven? For they all had
her." (Matthew 22:28). Jesus could have brushed off the Jews
with some curt retort because here was another of their tricks
to catch him out. Instead, he has enshrined for us the clearest
statement in the Bible regarding the resurrected soul. He said,
"Neither shall they die any more, for they are equal unto
the angels, and the children of God, for such are the
children of the resurrection" (Luke 20:36).
"NEITHER SHALL THEY DIE ANYMORE" - that they will be
immortalised*. They will not be subjected to death a SECOND
time. No more hunger and thirst. No more fatigue or physical
dangers. Because the resurrected body will be 'angelised' -
spiritualised - they will become like spirit creatures, they will
become SPIRITS.
Mary Magdalene was not looking for a spirit. She, taking the
disguised Jesus to be a gardener, says, "Sir, if you have taken HIM hence, tell me
where have you LAID him . . ." (John 20:15). Note, she is
searching for HIM and not IT - a dead body. Further, she wants
to know as to where they had LAID him, not as to where they
had BURIED him? So that, "I might take HIM away." (John
20:15).

To be continued...

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Check for "Who Move the Stone? Part 2"