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Matthew 27:32-66

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You Can Lay Out a Body in a Cave

North of Megito, they were clearing a road and they found it first century tomb. And I've been in that tomb. It's got a large stone that you roll in front of the tomb and then you can't get in. On the picture from the road, it looks like there's a window and that actually wasn't a window originally. When they were scraping the hill for the road to widen it, they opened up a window into the tomb. That was a little chamber in the tomb. The idea is you would lay out a body after it decomposed. You'd gather up the bones and put them in an osteuary - a stone box.

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