From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about the truth behind the Easter story.

He added, "Bigger than even rolling back the stone of an already empty grave ... just did, 'Jesus is risen,'" he said. In Matthew 28:7, the angels instructed the women at the tomb to "go quickly ...

You may put truth in a grave; it won’t stay there. You may nail the truth to a cross and shut it up in a tomb; the truth will rise — as Jesus Christ rose on Easter morning.” The resurrection ...

In Matthew there is one angel (with clothing white as snow) who sat on the stone; in Mark one young man sitting inside the tomb, in a white robe; in Luke two men in dazzling clothes, standing ...

Can we say the same at Easter in relation to this miraculous sign at the end of the life of Jesus? Or is the empty tomb something which, though we accept it because it is recorded in Scripture ...

Mary Magdalene went all alone to weep for Jesus at the borrowed garden tomb. Horrified to find it open and empty, she went rushing off to tell his disciples, 'Someone has removed Jesus’ body ...

Unless it’s Easter morning. Because in the empty tomb, Christians encounter the miracle of our faith: that after three agonizing days, Jesus has been raised from the dead. Need a break?

We began the entire discussion by accepting Bart Ehrman’s straightforward statement, “either Jesus really ... in His tomb. Now for the Christian, the evidence of how the empty tomb was ...

The Gospels, particularly John's account, depict the despair of Jesus' death and the subsequent joy of his resurrection. Mary Magdalene's experience at the empty tomb highlights the transition from ...

Christians claim the tomb was empty because Jesus rose from the dead. Others say that if it was empty, it’s either because he only fainted on the cross, his disciples stole the body or everyone ...

Jesus has made it a passage into another life, just like we are born from our mother's womb to a new existence (1 Corinthians 15:55). The womb of Mary, the cross and empty tomb are connected.