Jesus, disgraced and mistreated, is honorably buried in a new tomb. Nicodemus brings a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight, which gives off a precious scent.

John 19:41 confirms that Jesus was buried near Golgotha in a new tomb: “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.

At Jesus’s Jerusalem tomb, a race to reach original rock ‘where his body was laid’ Given just 60 hours to work, team restoring site at Church of Holy Sepulchre removes marble layers, exposes ...

Jesus' tomb in Jerusalem is being renovated 00:36. The Edicule was last restored in 1810 following a fire, and is in need of reinforcement after years of exposure to humidity and candle smoke.

A chapel-like “house” within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem covers the rock tomb where disciples are believed to have laid the crucified body of Jesus Christ. The claim that the ...

For those hoping this is the tomb of Jesus, a leap of faith is still required, but that leap can now depart from rock solid marble. This article was updated on October 28 at 1:38 p.m. ET. Candida Moss ...

In Jerusalem, that ancient and holy city, people's houses are built on bones. For thousands of years, hundreds of generations of Jews, Muslims and Christians have been laid to rest in its rocky ...

The site venerated as the tomb of Jesus is encased in structures like a Russian nesting doll. According to the Bible, Jesus was laid to rest on a stone platform in a cave hewn out of a rock wall.

The burial slab inside the chamber of Jesus’s tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem has not been seen since at least 1555 AD, when it was encased by layers of marble.

The Edicule which houses the remains of Jesus' tomb Wikimedia Commons Around 132 A.D., the Roman Emperor Hadrian began constructing the city of Aelia Capitolina on the ruins of Jerusalem, which ...