The Burial of Jesus
16 of 20 murals inside Saint John The Evangelist Church located in Altoona Pennsylvania
John 19: 38-42
Joseph of Arimaththea offers to bury Jesus in his family tomb. Joseph is a Pharisee and they believe in an after life, (resembles the Rapture). The Sadducee's did not "when your dead your dead"
Burial practices of the Jews, The body is anointed according to the Law of God and laid in the on a slab tomb and left there for a year after all the flesh is gone (evil spirits) the bones are placed in a sarcophagus and place in the back of vault. "let me go back and bury my father". "jesus says let the dead bury the dead" The father has already been in the tomb dead for a year
John 19: 38-42
Joseph of Arimaththea offers to bury Jesus in his family tomb. Joseph is a Pharisee and they believe in an after life, (resembles the Rapture). The Sadducee's did not "when your dead your dead"
Burial practices of the Jews, The body is anointed according to the Law of God and laid in the on a slab tomb and left there for a year after all the flesh is gone (evil spirits) the bones are placed in a sarcophagus and place in the back of vault. "let me go back and bury my father". "jesus says let the dead bury the dead" The father has already been in the tomb dead for a year