Alive: 21 Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus ChristSample

Reason 4: Jesus’ tomb was in a location that was well-known Some critics of Christ and Christianity have wrongly posited that Jesus wasn't well known and his death wasn't publicly displayed, so it would have been easy to fake his death. This is simply not true. Some 700 years before Jesus was born, God promised that Jesus would be assigned a grave “with a rich man in his death.” (Isaiah 53:9) This was incredibly unlikely, because Jesus was a very poor man who could not have afforded an expensive burial plot. This prophecy was fulfilled when, “a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph...was a disciple of Jesus...And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away” (Matthew 27:57-60). Jesus’ tomb was easy to find because it belonged to a well-known affluent man who was still alive and legally owned it. How can you use your affluence and/or influence to honor God?