Luke 24:1-12 ~ when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus

The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection, painted by Eugene Bumand

Luke 24:1-12

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.  While they were perplexed about this:  Behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,  that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”

And they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles,  but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.

But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.

Isaiah 53:9
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

This is a marvel.... Critics bash Jesus for fulfilling so many Scriptures by being able to say "it is written"  - knowing the Bible even as a child. However,  it would have been difficult for Jesus to have arranged His own grave upon His death, without being the Son of God.

Leen Ritmeyer, who oversaw the reconstructions for the ESV Study Bible, had information on the tomb.

Only a few of these rolling stones have been found. They usually have a diameter of 4.5 feet (1.4 m) and were about a foot (0.3 m) or so thick. Based on these measurements, the stone would have weighed a good few hundred kilos. Were rolling stones typical of tombs in the first century? Surprisingly, only very few tombs dating to the Second Temple period (c. 516 B.C.–A.D. 70) had rolling stones to close off the entrance. Actually, only four have been found in the Jerusalem area. The most well-known examples are the so-called Tomb of the Kings (more likely the Tomb of Queen Helena of Adiabene) and the Tomb of Herod’s Family. These were very elaborate tombs, built by wealthy people, as it is more expensive to build this kind of closing mechanism than just putting a blocking stone in front of the entrance. It confirms the fact that Joseph of Arimathea was a wealthy man (cf. Matt. 27:57).

Let's not forget the stone had a Roman guard and seal placed upon it.

Rolling stone tombs were in fact quite rare during that period, due to the fact it would have cost more to have a stone shaped to round.

In the image, the left hand points to the position of the Garden Tomb and the right hand points to the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (see end note 3 for the church floor plan). Both locations could fit the Scriptural description of the location, as they were both outside the city walls in Jesus' day. Both are sites of former quarry's and obvious burial locations, each near to a rock face that could have been known as the Place of the Skull; Golgotha (See John 19:17). [The Antonia fortress, the place of Roman judgement, was a reasonable and easily accessible distance from both sites]. Again, it is more probable that the location at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the correct one, since it was near to an ancient city gate. Romans liked maximum visibility for their crucifixions.

For us, visually, we see how elaborate man has made a shrine of the slit rock from the first century.  And the more natural beauty of the city of Jerusalem, wept over by Jesus.

 The Rock that split. Not as easily repaired as a quarried stone floor. Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Matthew 27:51-52
At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open.

"It seems that the crucifixion earthquake of 33 A.D. was magnitude 5.5, leaving direct physical evidence in a thin layer of disturbed sediment from the Dead Sea." - Greatest Earthquakes of the Bible, by Steven A. Austin, Ph.D.   Dr. Austin is a Senior Research Geologist, Logos Research Associates, Santa Ana, CA.

50 times the Scriptures use the word 'ran'. One fifth, of the 3,000 pages of the Bible, uses the word 'ran'  in the Gospels. Peter, who knew Jesus  - would run to the tomb to look for his Savior.

Luke 15:20

20 So he got up and went to his father.

“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him."

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