The Nazarene Kashmiri Christ — Page 30
Q. . A. 30 proves that Jesus Christ is dead but also establishes the fact that the Messiah, son of Mary, and the. Messiah to come are two separate individuals. . Did anyone witness the burial of Jesus Christ, or see his dead body? What do the Quran and history say about it?. The Holy Prophet, History and the Gospels do not have a single recorded statement of an eye witness to the effect that Jesus had died on the cross, or that he was dead when he was taken down from the cross, or that he was dead when he was placed in the sepulchre. It is narrated that he was only kept in a sepulchre in which two men were seen sitting by his side. This question has arisen because the concept of a grave today is quite different from the. Palestinian tombs, which were in fact large rooms or caves hewn or excavated in rocks, and the corpse was placed in it. The Bible narrates the incident that, "Joseph from Arimathea, a city of Judeans, went to. Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. And he took it down and wrapped it up in a fine linen and laid him in a tomb in which no man had yet lain. ". Again in John, it is written, "Incidentally at the place where he was impaled there was a garden, and in the garden a new memorial tomb in which no one had yet been laid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . then Simon Peter also came following him; another disciple and he entered the memorial tomb and he viewed the bandages lying, also the cloth that had been upon his head, not lying with the bandages but separately rolled up in one place. At that time, therefore, the other disciple who had reached the memorial tomb first also went in. ". These narratives strengthen and establish the stand of the Holy Quran about the doubt of slaying. . The Jews had their own doubts and none of the disciples was present at the scene of crucifixion, all having fled when Jesus was taken to Calvary.