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The Garden Tomb is a rock-cut tomb in Jerusalem, which was unearthed in 1867 and is considered by some Protestants to be the tomb of Jesus. The tomb has been dated by Israeli archaeologist Gabriel Barkay to the 8th–7th centuries BC.
Located in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, Jesus' tomb was sealed in 1555 and remained shuttered for centuries. Until this moment, no one had stepped foot inside the burial chamber of Jesus Christ for 500 years.
The Bible says Jesus was laid in "a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid" (John 19:41). Below is the loculus (burial place) inside Jesus' tomb, where Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus laid the body of Jesus.
John 19:41-42. Somewhere outside the city walls there was a location called “the place of the Skull” that was near a garden with a new (unused) tomb. Yet, before we already draw any conclusions, there is some history and archeology to consider. Holy Sepulchre – History and Background.
The tomb in which they buried Jesus of Nazareth was empty that first Easter morning. On this point the ancient eyewitnesses agree.1 The vast majority of modern scholars – critical or otherwise - also agree.2 There are three tombs in Jerusalem people point to as the place Jesus of Nazareth was originally laid to rest….
The Jewish community in Jerusalem had preserved the memory of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial. Three hundred years later, in about 325 A.D., Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, built the church of the Holy Sepulcher in the same place to enclose the tomb believed to house Jesus’ body.
41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.