Was Jesus Buried on the Day of His Crucifixion
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Chris Huntley
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
All the Gospels agree that on the day Jesus was crucified, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body and took it from the cross to bury in a tomb.
What almost no one realizes is that this would have been unprecedented, so far as we know, in the Roman world, where part of the humiliation of crucifixion was for the corpse to be left on the cross to decompose and be ravaged by scavenging birds for days before being disposed of.
Did the Romans make an exception for Jesus? Is that plausible? Or is the story of his burial by Joseph a later legend? This is obviously an issue of enormous significance. If Jesus was not buried that afternoon, how could he have emerged from the tomb "on the third day"?
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| 0:00.0 | We all know that the Gospels describe Jesus' crucifixion and subsequent resurrection, |
| 0:05.4 | but what about that time in between? What do historians say about the treatment of Jesus' |
| 0:10.1 | body following his death? And how does this line up with Jewish funerary practices and Roman |
| 0:15.4 | custom? Was Jesus' body placed in a tomb, as the Gospels describe, or ignobly tossed in the mass grave? |
| 0:23.0 | Stay tuned for all of that, and much, much more. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. |
| 0:32.0 | The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned Bible scholar |
| 0:37.6 | uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, |
| 0:43.6 | and the rise of Christianity. I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin. |
| 0:50.3 | Today we're talking about a bit of a controversial topic. What happened to Jesus' body following his crucifixion? |
| 0:56.7 | Art has some unconventional views on the subject, so we'll look at what he says, as well |
| 1:00.8 | as what the majority of scholars think. |
| 1:03.4 | Before we get into that, Art, good morning. |
| 1:05.6 | How are you? |
| 1:06.6 | Yes, I'm doing well, thank you. |
| 1:08.6 | We're kind of bursting into the hotter months. |
| 1:12.4 | Things are good. |
| 1:13.4 | I prefer the heat to the cold, and so it's all fine by me. |
| 1:17.0 | How are you doing? |
| 1:18.6 | Yes. |
| 1:19.4 | Okay, I haven't melted yet, so that's a bonus. |
| 1:23.3 | We've mentioned before I am. |
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