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his Dady "A rich man from Arithmathea, named Joseph" a disciple of Jesus, got permission to entomb Jesus in a tomb belonging to Joseph, and closed it with a large stone.

The priests and pharisees asked Pilate to put a guard on the tomb, he obliged and ordered that the tomb be sealed to prevent the disciples of Jesus from stealing the body and falsely claiming Jesus had risen from the dead.

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A:The New Testament tells us that it was the Roman practice to break the crucified person's legs to hasten death and then take the body down for burial. However, John Dominic Crossan (The Birth of Christianity) says that the condemned person was affixed to the cross to die slowly and in agony, and was usually left thereafter as carrion for birds and dogs. Death by crucifixion was the public waming in the Roman tradition, and non-burial made being crucified alive a supreme penalty of Roman punishment. To allow the body to be taken down, even after death, would diminish the desired effect.

Nevertheless, just one crucified body has been found by archaeologists, demonstrating that on rare occasions, whether through patronage, mercy, bribery or indifference, a crucified person could receive an honourable burial in the family tomb in the early- or mid-first-century Jewish homeland. One heel still held a nail, showing that the family or patrons were careful not to do further damage to the man's bones. Apart from this apparent care taken in bringing the body down, there is no further evidence of how it was done. Given the many thousands whom the Romans crucified, the rarity of this find suggests that it was extremely rare for the crucified bodies to be taken down and buried.

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According to The Bible, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus removed Jesus' body from the cross and prepared it for burial.

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his Dady "A rich man from Arithmathea, named Joseph" a disciple of Jesus, got permission to entomb Jesus in a tomb belonging to Joseph, and closed it with a large stone. The priests and pharisees asked Pilate to put a guard on the tomb, he obliged and ordered that the tomb be sealed to prevent the disciples of Jesus from stealing the body and falsely claiming Jesus had risen from the dead.


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