In the first century and indeed the years before, "tombs" were expensive. Only the very rich could afford them. "Criminals" were denied "tombs" as being unfit for a proper burial.
In the case of jesus, a tomb is highly unlikely. Supposedly jesus was a begger that relied on handouts to survive. All his disciples were beggars as well renouncing their jobs to follow the hobo jesus.
When and if jesus was arrested he was destitute. The Romans being the highly efficient government that they were would not have paid for a tomb. The practice of the time was to execute the criminal and either leave them on a cross or dump them in a mass grave or even burn them in a mass funeral pyre. No record exists of executed criminals being returned to family members in all the Roman records. In fact, there is no criminal record of jesus. No trial record, no arrest record, no execution record. That is significant because Romans were obsessive about chronicling everything that the government every official action.
So why are christians so insistent that jesus was arrested by the Romans, tried by the Romans, executed by the Romans, given to the family by the Romans, and buried in a tomb? It is simply impossible without any Roman record of such an event and goes against everything that the Romans did at the time.
Spartacus was a famous slave that led a rebellion. He was eventually defeated and crucified. His body was left to rot. His remains vanished or were just forgotten after a few years. There are extensive records of this by the Romans. Indeed all of the slave rebels that were executed were chronicled by the Romans. That numbers into the tens of thousands. So why would the Romans just forget recording ANYTHING about jesus? The only answer is that it just didn't happen. Did all the hundreds of scribes suddenly have writers cramp? No, the fact is the Romans would have recorded the events in detail and they have no records of such an event. There aren't even jewish records. Only testimony that appears over 300 years after the supposed event.
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