What evidence outside the bible is there to corroborate the following verse.?

Question

MT 27:51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. 52 The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people
Any documents that write about this event of dead holy men walking around the holy city outside of the book of Mathew?
thankyou

@ rp_joe wtf???

If you are aware there is none, simply say 'there is none' get your two points and leave.
Its a simple question, there either is external evidence or there is not. Its plain. Christian scholars or historians or serious bible students, if there is evidence can you please let me know, if there isnt any then let me know that also.

what montecarlomo... said is a little better. Not as good but much better. Jo mentions nothing of it im afraid

@ Nigelg
Sounds like christian translators will just keep on 'perfecting' the translation untill its 'bullet proof'

Answer 1

Looking for corroborating historical evidence of biblical events is like looking for a steak sandwich in Nicole Richie's dressing room. You're not going to find it.

Isn't it amazing that grown adults actually believe this crap?

Answer 2

No, there is no other references in the Bible to this event. However, since the Bible says at Colossians 1:18 - "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD; that in all things he might have the preeminence."

So, while the Holy Men "were raised up" they were not resurrected, just "reanimated" to walk. Christ Jesus was the First to be raised from the dead, 3 days after his death, so these Holy men could not have been resurrected fully, I think God was trying to prove a point and that was THIS WAS MY SON! Also, after a thousand years and 2 re-buildings it was like 40 years later that the Temple was torn down PERMANENTLY around 72 A.D. when Rome sacked Jerusalem and left only the Wailing Wall left standing, which Christ had forseen at when he said "there would be not one stone left upon stone" where the Temple stood. Also, this is where the Israelites kept their genealogies and now they no longer KNOW which tribe they are from, so their "tribal" history is totally lost. Funny, it lasted just long enough to prove Christs heritage.

Great question tho!

Answer 3

Regarding these verses one of the foremost Protestant Bible commentaries, that by Adam Clarke, states: “It is difficult to account for the transaction mentioned in verses 52 and 53.

Some have thought that these two verses have been introduced into the text of Matthew from the gospel of the Nazarenes, others think the simple meaning is this:—by the earthquake several bodies that had been buried were thrown up and exposed to view, and continued above ground till after Christ’s resurrection, and were seen by many persons in the city.

Why the graves should be opened on Friday, and the bodies not raised to life till the following Sunday, is difficult to be conceived.

A reasonable solution to this problem is given by the rendering of the verses in question in the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures.

While a literal translation, it puts clarity of thought ahead of literalness.

It reads: “And the memorial tombs were opened and many bodies of the holy ones that had fallen asleep were thrown up, (and persons, coming out from among the memorial tombs after his being raised up, entered into the holy city,) and they became visible to many people.”

From this translation it is evident that this was no resurrection of “sleeping saints” but merely a throwing of bodies out of their tombs by the earthquake that attended Jesus’ death.

The New World Translation is not alone in rendering these verses thus. A modern German translation reads quite similarly: “Tombs were laid open, and many bodies of those buried were tossed upright. In this posture they projected from the graves and were seen by many who passed by the place on their way back to the city.”—Matt. 27:52, 53.

Answer 4

uh, yeah. If that happened today, it might appear on the police blotter of your hometown paper, but I don't know what the equivalent media coverage would have been at that time. The inter-Bible corroboration is from family members of the dead people who supposedly came home hungry. It seems to me that this must have stayed a verbal story for a few generations before anyone wrote it down because the earliest manuscripts of these stories are from 2 or 3 hundred years after the fact. Stories passed by mouth might tend toward exaggeration and embellishment. Geologists might be able to tell you whether there was an earthquake at the proper time.

Answer 5

Why do you need other documents? What evidence is there that the United States of America is actually independent from Britain outside of the Declaration on Independence? Does that mean it never happened? Not the greatest question.

Answer 6

You should read Mattithyah 27:51 from other translations.
Most English translations of this verse are badly mistranslated.
That is not what is written in the manuscripts.


Obadhawk

Answer 7

This was written when there were still eye-witnesses still alive to confirm what had happened. The Bible is a historical document. Otherwise, it would never have been published.

Answer 8

That was the original screen play for Dawn of the Dead.

Answer 9

You could try the Book of Josephus. The library might have it.

Answer 10

Eye witnesses