The Women Went to the Wrong Tomb

<p><strong>The Historical Timeline</strong></p> <p>The timeline leading to when the three women went to the tomb to finish caring for Jesus stems from the Hebrew calendar month Nisan, which is the first month of spring in the Gregorian equivalent calendar that we know today. Starting from the last day of Passover, it is this evening that the Lord’s Supper is held, Jesus prays at the Garden of Gethsemane, arrested in Jerusalem, and tried before the Sanhedrin charged with blasphemy before sent to Pontius Pilate for judgment and condemnation. According to the Hebrew calendar, in the month of Nisan, the Last Supper, arrest and trial were held on Tuesday into Wednesday. Jesus was crucified and placed in the tomb on Wednesday evening before sunset and the Sabbath&#39;s start. The tomb was sealed with stone and guarded with Roman soldiers on Thursday. The women purchased the spices to anoint Jesus’ body on Friday, as Saturday was a regular Sabbath. As noted in Jonah, Jesus fulfilled the three full days and nights prophecy and His duties as the Messiah. </p> <p><strong>The Empty Tomb</strong></p> <p>Biblical scholar Paul Gould provides no distinctive reasoning as to why the empty tomb occurred when writing about this hypothetical theory that “Mary and company mistakenly went to a tomb other than that of Jesus.” Immediately he is left with more questions than answers, leaving this theory to be the shortest of his five. It was these three women that found the stone miraculously rolled back, supposed to be guarded by Roman soldiers, and saw that Jesus was not in the tomb. “And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments” (Luke 24:4, NKJV). The first argument is that this perplexity is not to be misconceived as only a time of mourning, but it must be noted that it was important that “[t]he faithful women are present as witnesses to the correct site.” Confirmation, given by the two angels standing before the women, implied that the women should have known they