Pope Benedict just finished his visit to the Middle East, ending it with a holy mass in Jerusalem and a visit to the tomb of Jesus Christ. This last part confuses the hell out of me--if Jesus was resurrected three days after he was crucified what or who is in his tomb? If there's nobody home, then why is it called the "tomb"? Why not the burial site where he was temporarily buried until, unhappy with the accommodation, he left?
But wait, it gets more bizarre: on bibleplus.org web site, where I went to seek an explanation, are the pictures of the tomb. There is a sign of the entrance with the words "he is not here for he has risen" written in...ENGLISH!!! If even Mel Gibson in his movie "Passion" had his celluloid Jesus speak Aramaic, which genius thought of writing the sign on the tomb in English?
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