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Do We Know if There Was Really An Empty Tomb?

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What makes Jesus different from the prophets of the world’s other great religions? The claim that he rose from the dead and left behind an empty tomb. But how much do we know about it?

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The discovery of the empty tomb presupposes that there was a tomb in the first place, and that it was known, and of course that it was discovered.

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