Someone stole the body!

[Jehanne]

This is not a thread for Jesus mythists, so let's suppose that Jesus of Nazareth existed.  Professor Bart Ehrman, in his 2008 debate with William Craig, gave a completely naturalistic explanation of Jesus' supposed "resurrection" from the dead, which I am going to embellish on my own:

I watched that debate, and one of the things I liked was the Ehrman said he could come up with any number of plausible scenarios to explain the empty tomb. Even if they aren't very probable, taken individually, the chances that one of them is true are pretty good. Many orders of magnitude better than "miracle."

As for me, I think the stories of the empty tomb were first invented by people who were far enough removed from the events not to know that Jesus was thrown in a mass grave and left to rot.

I don't consider the story of the empty tomb to be an ironclad fact of history, in the same category as Caesar crossing the Rubicon.  Even without an "empty tomb", the body of Jesus may have been handed over to someone for a bribe.  Who knows?!  Roman soldiers were tried by jurors composed of their peers, and so, it's easy to see a group of them taking Jesus down from the cross, quickly stuffing his corpse into a bag, and then saying, "We'll take 'such and such'.".  Improbable, yes; impossible, no.