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P.2023 - §3 As they made ready to
remove the body of Jesus from the tomb preparatory to according it the dignified
and reverent disposal of near-instantaneous dissolution, it was assigned
the secondary Urantia midwayers to roll away the stones from the entrance
of the tomb. The larger of these two stones was a huge circular affair,
much like a millstone, and it moved in a groove chiseled out of the rock,
so that it could be rolled back and forth to open or close the tomb. When
the watching Jewish guards and the Roman soldiers, in the dim light of the
morning, saw this huge stone begin to roll away from the entrance of the
tomb, apparently of its own accord--without any visible means to account
for such motion--they were seized with fear and panic, and they fled in
haste from the scene. The Jews fled to their homes, afterward going back
to report these doings to their captain at the temple. The Romans fled to
the fortress of Antonia and reported what they had seen to the centurion
as soon as he arrived on duty. |
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A larger disc, large enough to cover the entrance of the
tomb, was here ten years earlier, but now disappeared. |
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The rolling stone can be rolled in this groove by two men. |
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Japanese tourists (the leader and Jay Satoh) |
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At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden,
and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid [John 19:41] |
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Japanese tourists (the leader and Jay Satoh)