Across the street from the walls that surround the city of David there is a tomb. It looks like any other ancient tomb in that area. Step inside and you will quickly realize that this tomb is different. Someone of status and wealth once owned this tomb. You can tell that it belonged to a person of means because this is a double tomb with two side-by-side burial spaces. What is more, this tomb once contained a body but now it lies empty. The evidence of its having been used is seen in the way that the sides of one of the two grave spaces are cut clean and square, just as they would be if a dead person had once occupied that place. You see, the custom in old Jerusalem was to cut a grave place only roughly ("rough it in," we might say) until the person to be buried there died. When the person…