Is there any evidence that the body had died on Friday and that it had been placed in a cave sealed by a stone? I'm looking for a subject of next week's sermon.
The message would be that only Jesus temporarily died for our sins - accept no substitute!
Oh, I've just seen the article: apparently the police would not comment to say if the body were hanging from a tree - this means that the body was hanging from a tree. This is even better - we can bring Judas into this! It's be really convenient if the place could be called, "The Field of Blood."
M't:27:3: Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
M't:27:4: Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
M't:27:5: And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
M't:27:6: And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
M't:27:7: And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
M't:27:8: Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.