(July 11, 2015 at 8:28 pm)Pizza Wrote: Produce the corpse? Why would the Romans and Jews care enough?
To avoid the spread of false rumors.
Matthew 77
62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.” 65 “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
Quote:Secondly, a dead body rots.
Not beyond all recognition in less than 72 hours. Jesus wounds, after all, were very unique.