Most scholars agree that the tomb in which Jesus was laid was empty shortly after his burial. This judgement is based on a few things. First, there are at least three independent references to the empty tomb (by Mark, John and Paul, in texts that most scholars agree were composed without knowledge of the other). The criterion of multiple attestation says that when independent sources offer roughly the same portrait of an event from the past, that event takes on greater plausibility. Second, without
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