Wesley Huff

And then they go back to the disciples who are, you know, hiding in this upper room.

Mary says, you know, I met you.

The tomb is empty.

I've met Jesus.

Jesus is not in the tomb.

He's risen.

And some of them don't even believe her.

They think she's crazy.

Now, we don't have like an eyewitness account of the tomb being open.

And this is actually an embarrassing fact in the ancient world.

So some of those other gospels that I mentioned earlier that are written later on, Gospel of Thomas, Judas, Mary, Peter, there's one of them, the Gospel of Peter, which is actually trying to remedy this fact that –

Women are the first eyewitnesses to the empty tomb, which is an embarrassing fact in the ancient world.

If that's not true, if they made it up, it seems very unlikely that they would have done that because women are not considered good eyewitnesses, either Greco-Roman or unfortunately Jewish society in this time period.

So the Gospel of Peter tries to remedy the situation by having all of the right people –

in the right place at the right time.

It has the Jewish and the Roman officials camping out in front of the tomb when it actually happens, and then has this recounted story of literally the stone moving, Jesus coming out, all these things.

Now, we know it's not historically reliable.

We know that because of when it was written.

We also know that on the eve of Passover, the priests would not be camping out in front of a dead body.

It's just historically anachronistic.