It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever since.

Frederick Buechner
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In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is said to have been crucified and then taken down from the cross. The corpse is missing from the tomb. Later, however, Jesus appears to his disciples. This resurrection of Jesus from the dead is a hoax of sorts.

But it is a hoax of a higher order. The very fact of Jesus’ resurrection is a hoax of a higher order that convinces us that something truly miraculous can happen.

Source: The Faces Of Jesus: A Life Story

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