WHO MOVED THE STONE? or who ROLLED away the stone? (Mark 16:3) is a Question, which has worried theologians for the past two thousand years. Mr. Frank Morison, a prominent Bible scholar, tried to nail down this ghost(s) in a book bearing the same title as this tract. Between 1930 and 1975 his book has gone through ELEVEN editions. Through all his 192 pages of conjectures he failed to answer,WHO MOVED THE STONE? (Faber and Faber, London). On page 89 of his book, he writes, We are left, therefore, with the problem of the vacant tomb unsolved and proceeds to advance SIX hypotheses, very nearly knocking the proverbial nail on the head with his FIRST supposition, i.e. THAT JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA SECRETLY REMOVED THE BODY TO A MORE SUITABLE RESTING PLACE. After confessing that this Joseph might himself have removed it for private reasons to another place, is one which seems to carry considerable weight (italics mine), he hurriedly disposes this hypothesis on the flimsiest ground. As you read on, dear reader, I trust that you as well as Mr Morison will have a satisfactory answer to this problem. Let us begin at the beginning of this problem. It was Sunday morning, according to the Bible, the first day of the week, when Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus (John 20:1). The first question that bedevils the mind is Q1: WHY DID SHE GO TO THE TOMB?Ans: The Gospel writers say that she went to anoint him. The Hebrew word for anoint is masaha, which means - to rub, to massage, to anoint. The word and its meaning are the same in the Arabic language also. From this root word masaha we get the Arabic word MASEEH and the Hebrew MESSIAH both meaning the same thing - the anointed one which is translated into Greek as Christos from which we derive the word Christ.
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