Someone stole the body!

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Sounds pretty good.

Isn't there a problem that they never would have buried Jesus in a tomb anyway? Wouldn't they have chucked him in a mass grave or such? It doesn't make sense that they'd give him such a high status burial after killing him for being a preacher.

The tomb is empty because he was never put in it in the first place.

The thing is you could come up with a hundred reasons for an empty tomb, some simple, some complex and some far fetched. From it never happened right to aliens wanted to learn about the human body and stole the cadaver. With a whole range of degrees of plausibility in between. What is needed to sort it out would be some sort of physical evidence for as we know from hagiographies, the last thing we can trust is an ancient eye witness.

Especially since there aren't any.