12 The Empty Tomb

The Empty Tomb

None of the four evangelists describes Jesus’ actual resurrection, but they all report the discovery of the empty tomb, and all except Mark recount appearances of the risen Jesus to his followers. The resurrection accounts of the four Gospels are notoriously difficult to harmonize, a fact that has often been cited as evidence of the basic historicity of the events underlying them. The Synoptic accounts of the empty-tomb story converge sufficiently for parallel analysis. John’s version differs considerably from the others and so will be treated separately…

Taken from Parallel Lives of Jesus by Edward Adams