Object: picture of a tomb from biblical times

I have a final picture to show you today, one that you would not be able to guess unless you had been there. This outdoor scene looks something like a garden, but at the far end there is a hill with a doorway cut out of the hill. If the doorway was not so square, you might think that it was a cave in the side of the hill

There is still a garden here today just as it was a long time ago. There really was a doorway cut into the side of the hill, but it was not the place where someone lived. No one lived there and no one was ever supposed to live there, but instead it was a place for the dead. This was a tomb that had been made for a very rich man named Joseph of Arimathea. Joseph was not only rich, but he was one of the people who made the rule…