Gospel

Beyond The Grave Part 1

by Roland Crim
11/09/25
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As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb. Matthew 27:57-61 NIV


Matthew does not mention that Nicodemus helped Joseph of Arimathea in preparing Jesus' body for burial and rolling the tomb in front of the entrance.

Our earthly bodies will visit the grave, in whatever form the body and the grave turn out to be. This is so, as Genesis 3:19 says, in part,  “for dust you are and to dust you will return."

The post death human body though is not our end. The soul lives on. It lives beyond the grave.