How do we know that the Roman soldiers didn't steal the body of Jesus Christ?

Question

Hello there, and thank you for answering my question. I have actually three interesting questions. How do we know that the:
A.) Romans soldiers
B.) Disciples
C.) The Jews (i.e. Pharisees)

Didn't steal the body of Jesus. A couple of things I would like to note before you give me your answer. I am trying to be VERY objective, and would also like your responses after you read this. The roman guard, or Jewish guard, whatever you beleive the guard was made up of, probably consisted of atleast 10-30. That is no joke. Now let's admit, the disciples were cowards. They fled at just the SIGHT of soldiers coming to arrest Jesus. I don't think this band of cowardly weenies (yes weenies) would even dare to fight a well armed, well trained, guard. The soldiers couldn't have gone to sleep because under Roman military law, soldiers sleeping on the job would be killed. Even had they been zzz , the disciples trying to move the boulder would have produced alot of noise. It weighed thousands of lbs.

It is silly and foolish to say that the Jews took the body of Jesus. They put the guard at the site so that the disciples wouldn't steal the body of Jesus. They didn't want people saying that Jesus' body had risen. That type of logic would be laughed out by even the most liberal of scholars. Sorry, but it's true. Now it comes down to the Romans. I don't really know any motives of "why or why not" steal the body. Give me some reasons why or why not the Roman soldiers would steal the body. What other group would have been responsible for stealing Jesus' body? So, we have concluded that the disciples wouldn't have stolen it because they have the amount of courage of a small girl. The Jews wouldn't have done it, because the last thing they wanted was the notion throughout all of Judah that Jesus really DID rise from the dead. Now it just comes down to the Romans. Why or why not would they have stolen the body?

Answer 1

The resurrected Jesus was witnessed by over five hundred people. (1 Corinthians 15:6)

Therefore no one stole his body.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

First off it is an assumption that they were Roman. Pilate said that you have your guard. No where does it say they were Roman soldiers. They could have been Jewish temple guards In either case they had no motive whatsoever to steal the body. The disciples also had no motive to steal the body. Think about it. What could any one have to gain by stealing a dead body? No, Jesus was raised from the dead and seen by over 500 persons over a period of 40 days after his Resurrection. The tomb was empty, and no body was ever found. If someone had stolen the body, say the Romans or Temple Guards then they certainly would have produced it after the Apostles started preaching the Gospel at Pentecost only 50 days later. They would have produced it , stinking and rotten to contradict what the new the sect later to be called Christians were saying ...That Jesus was raised from the dead. The Resurrection of Christ is the most well documented event of all ancient history with over 24,000 manuscripts of the New Testament. It is a certainty that Jesus is alive and sitting on the right hand of God the Father. He is coming back ... that also is certain... Come to Christ all who don't know him yet. The hour is late God Bless Cap'n Arlo

Answer 3

Years after the Jewish people started to return to Israel (after the 1st World War), they had found an ancient place called Masada or Magedo. (where the word Armageddon came from). According to history, the place Masada was the last stronghold of a rebellion that happened few years after the supposed Jesus crucifixion. The Romans planned to attack them on Saturday or Sabbath, and the Jews being religious chosed neither to fight nor surrender, bcuz they were forbidden fight on that day, and they dont want to surrender. They, all of them choosed to commited a mass suicide. When the Romans actually attacked them, they were greeted with dead bodies and corpses. Feeling haunted, they left the place without touching anything. Now, although most historians believed that the rebellion was more like a scattered movement, some believed that there was a central figure behind it, and that figure was Jesus, and he was there in Masada. It is uncleared wether he also committed suicide along with the other Jews, but fast forward to now, in that place Masada, one of the skeleton they found up in a cave was a skeleton of an old man age around 60 to 65(if im not mistaken), the age of Jesus at that time. And judging from the place where it was found-in a secluded cave, along with women and children, he was supposed to be a very important figure-a protected one. The Israelian Government actually gave an honourable military burial to these skeletons-along with others. So I guess that man was Jesus, and now he is already rest in peace.

Answer 4

While it is satisfying to provide a rational explanation for a non-rational event, it is usually an exercise in methphysical speculation. After all, from a historical point-of-view, the definite existance of Jesus hasn't been established. We have no birth or death certificates. The very nature of Christ was decided some 300 years later by the expedient of killing those who did not toe the "party line" explanation. The trial episodes differ widely between the Gospel writers (who probably wrote their versions from hearsay some 50 or so years after the crucifiction). So, why speculate on the details on the first Easter Sunday?

Answer 5

Jesus' body wasn't stolen, since he rose from the dead!

Neither the Jewish nor the Roman leaders, who guarded the tomb (Matthew 27:62f) would have taken the body. Rather, both had every motive to produce the body publicly in order to humiliate the disciples and nip their movement in the bud. And since the scene in question was right at Jerusalem, it was completely within their power to locate the corpse should it still have existed. Yet to their dismay, no such body was ever produced. If the Jews had the body, they would have wheeled it in at the day of Pentecost when all Jerusalem was in an uproar because of Peter's sermon on the Resurrection of Christ. God bless.

Answer 6

The Romans would not have stolen the body either, firstly the rock was sealed with tar or something strong and sticky to not allow it to open.

Why would anybody leave the grave clothes the way they were found? The Romans were not in to practical jokes it would have been way better (if the romans had orchastrated stealling Jesus Body) to have had the Guards ambushed and killed or at least injured, the grave clothes to have disappered with the body... the body to turn up in land fill somewhere...

since the body was never found Jesus rose and is alive and nobody stole his body...

Answer 7

Since we weren't there as witnesses and the individuals who wrote the accounts of the resurrection were themselves not witnesses (the books were written decades after the crucifixion), there is no way for anyone to know what did or did not happen with certainty.

Answer 8

Hi Joe,
The most interesting thing is the fact that Christ arose from the dead and was seen by several hundred people prior to HIS Ascension. That would be difficult to pull off and it would be a tuff act to have HIM leave the earth since they had no way to fly back then. I guess HE must have arose from the dead. Have a wonderful week.
Thanks,
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Answer 9

a.) the penalty was death for allowing that they were placed there at the tomb to protect it.
b.) Disciples who ran in fear, would turn after he was dead fight soldiers win against them and then be able to roll a 10 thousand pound stone away that was sealed to cover a tomb.
c.) what would it prophet the Jews? it would only promote Christianity and they murdered to kill it.

Answer 10

I believe that Jesus was seen after this by many people. The bible is not the only historic record of Christ's life, crucifixion, and resurrection.