Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 173
Toll states that to judge from the Gospels Jesus was not anointed; if this had been testified, the hypothesis of apparent death would of course have lacked all foundation from the start. . If one accepts that Jesus was only apparently dead when he was placed in the tomb, then according to Toll the subsequent events would have their natural explanation: Jesus awoke to life, the stone that had been placed against the entrance to the tomb was thrown aside by an earthquake or was perhaps forced away from the inside by Jesus himself. . And in his white linen cloth, sitting on the stone, he gave the women who came to the tomb on Easter morning the vision of an angel. . Of great interest is Toll's comment that the difficulty in reconciling the accounts of Jesus's journeyings (Emmaus etc. ) on the same day that he left the tomb, in the condition which his feet must have been in after the nailing on the cross, can be eliminated if the fact is considered that in some places in the Gospel of St. John (chapter 20, verses 20 and 25) only wounds in the side and in the hands are mentioned. Toll made a thorough study of the literature concerning the technique of crucifixion and considered that in the secular literature he found good support for the possibility, or even probability, that the feet were left untouched by the nailing. . This is an extract from “Korset och Graven. En nutida läkares tankar om Jesu död och uppståndelse" ("The Cross and the Tomb. Viewpoints of a present-day physician on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus") by Gunnar Nyström, M. D. , former. Professor of Surgery at Uppsala University, Sweden. Published 1950, Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri AB, Uppsala. 178