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| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
| Has that always been in the text? |
 In the books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke the writers tell that Jesus was wrapped in clean, white cloth. When we celebrate Easter we always see the beautiful artists' renderings of the empty grave clothes, pristine and spotless like new sheets right out of the package, draped over a slab of rock. But John adds the little detail that Nicodemus brought 100 pounds of a myrrh/aloe mixture as well. ONE HUNDRED POUNDS. So I'm picturing these clean, white cloths being soaked or pasted with a hundred pounds of spices and wrapped around the body of Jesus.
It seems to me that it would've been a sticky, time-consuming mess for someone to go to the trouble of unwrapping a dead body to steal it. Or a body that had the added 100+ pounds of spices and linens being carried out unseen and carted off to who-knows-where.
Not that I needed convincing, it was just one of those things I've read over so many times that I didn't take notice before. My thoughts during my daily reading today.
Yep. He's alive. |
| posted by Joye @ 12:42 PM |
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| 6 Comments: |
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You know, I never read that before. Wonder how I missed it? That's great insight. Wow.
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great to have you posting again, I miss reading your writings.
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Great insight, Joye. You are so right. Thanks for sharing that with us.
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i never thought of it that way before. thanks for the insight. :)
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Ahh, the way your mind works is awesome, Sister! How sweet it is to see this passage (again) for the first time! Right on thinking, but then I'm not surprised.
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I think the body would have had a HUGE stench. The smell of dead rotting flesh, mixed in with Aloe and spices. Yummy. I don't think someone would want to steal that and then have to smell it all the way to where they were going to dump the body. God is so good.
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You know, I never read that before. Wonder how I missed it? That's great insight. Wow.