Scenario 1: Review the Evidence
What did you make of the Soldier's Interrogation? Now it is time for you to consider his evidence.
Read the Bible passage on your worksheet and answer the questions below for Scenario 1: The Body was Stolen. When you've finished, click the button below to look at the evidence for Scenario 2.
Matthew 27:62-66 “The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”
“Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
1) What do you think of the Soldier's story? Why do you think that?
2) Could this scenario be the answer to the Case of the Empty Tomb? Why or why not?