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<strong>Who</strong> Moved <strong>the</strong> <strong>S<strong>to</strong>ne</strong>? Page 4away, and <strong>the</strong> winding sheets bundled on <strong>the</strong> ledge within <strong>the</strong>sepulchre. The question now arises:Q6: WHY WAS THE STONE REMOVED, AND WHY WERETHE WINDING SHEETS FOUND UNWOUND?Ans: Because it would be impossible for any tangible materialbody <strong>to</strong> come out with <strong>the</strong> s<strong>to</strong>ne blocking <strong>the</strong> opening, and <strong>the</strong>same physical body could not walk out with <strong>the</strong> winding sheetsencasing <strong>the</strong> body. For a resurrected body, it would have beenunnecessary <strong>to</strong> remove <strong>the</strong> s<strong>to</strong>ne or <strong>to</strong> unwind <strong>the</strong> windingsheets. Probably having <strong>the</strong> resurrected, immortalised body, or<strong>the</strong> spirit of man in mind, a poet said: "STONE WALLS DO NOTA PRISON MAKE, NOR IRON BARS A CAGE".While <strong>the</strong> poor, dejected Mary was investigating <strong>the</strong> sepulchre,Jesus was watching her from <strong>the</strong> vicinity. Not from heaven, butfrom terra firma, from mo<strong>the</strong>r earth. We must remember thatthis <strong>to</strong>mb was a privately owned property belonging <strong>to</strong> his"secret disciple" Joseph of Arima<strong>the</strong>a - who was a very rich,influential Jew, and one who could afford <strong>to</strong> have carved a bigroomy chamber, out of a rock which according <strong>to</strong> Jim Bishop (aChristian scholar of note) was 5 feet wide by 7 feet high by 15feet deep with a ledge or ledges inside. Around this
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