(January 12, 2014 at 3:24 pm)truthBtold Wrote: Matthew 27:51-3 describes the "resurrection" of many godly people who rose from the graves and exited the cemetery on Good Friday and returned to Jerusalem where they were seen by many people, earthquake and rocks breaking in half. If true, this event would have stunned all of Jerusalem, unquestionably been documented by numerous sources, as well as other gospels and in terms of shock value would have dwarfed even the resurrection of Jesus. Yet nowhere, not even in historical non-biblical records. Only in Matthew does anyone speaks of this resurrection-related miracle. C'MON.....
If this happened the people who were resurrected could not have been dead long. Which means the only people who would have been able to account for death were close family members (they did not issue death certificates back then.) which I turn means any accounts of a recently dead person coming back would have been quickly dismissed by non believers as the family being mistaken that they were dead. It's not like they were all crucified. Matthew simple recorded the information he was privy too.
