Reading:
Matthew 27:57-66
Conspiracy theories where alive and well during Jesus' time just like they are today. You can see the chief priests and Pharisees getting quite concerned at this point. They remember hearing Jesus speak about the fact that you could destroy the Temple and He will rebuild it three days. (John2:19) He did not mean the Temple that was there in Jerusalem, but rather He was speaking about His own body that was going to be offered on the cross for the sin of the world. This Holy Body would lay for three days and then it would be raised to life again. This is what the priests and Pharisees were concerned about. They knew all that Jesus taught was Truth and they saw Him perform miracles, now they were concerned what if He was right.
But of course they wanted to paint it to be that the disciples would come and take the body and then say that He lives. However, having a missing body would not really prove anything, now would it. However, a resurrected body that could be seen, touched, spoken with, walked with, and having a meal with, now that might get peoples attention! So they could place all of the seals that they wanted, Jesus came back from the dead and did many wonderful signs to show that He is alive!
This is our blessed hope that because He lives we too shall live. We have died in Holy Baptism and now have received the new life of Christ so that death no longer has a hold on us. We know that we will now spend eternity with Jesus because He paid our debt in full when He died on the cross and rose again! There is no conspiracy, there are too many witnesses that record the resurrection of Jesus in multiple ways. Lay hold of the truth by faith and live!
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