Popular depictions of Jesus' tomb often show a small, single-chamber burial site—but historical evidence suggests something very different. Scholars argue that first-century rock-cut tombs were ...

The shifting Nativity narratives, for instance, suggest that rumors about Jesus’ parentage existed from the beginning; Matthew’s account of the empty tomb serves, Pagels suggests, to counter ...

SECOND STATION The Disciples Discover the Empty Tomb All: We adore You, O Christ and we praise You! Because by the Wood of the Cross and the Light of the Resurrection, You have redeemed the world!

He buries Jesus in his own empty tomb, in a garden. At Jesus's burial, the cemetery becomes a garden, the garden from which Adam was cast out when he abandoned the fullness of life, his Creator.