1st Week of Easter – Monday B
The tomb was empty, and now begins the search for a body. At the end of the day it won’t matter whose body, but unless the authorities can now somehow convince the people that the false messiah is actually dead and his predictions of rising from death were false, they will have a rioting mob on their hands who will demand their blood for executing the Messiah who, now offended, will disappear to heaven. So must have been the thoughts of Jesus’ persecutors who are now stuck with figuring out the mess of an execution committed at their instigation and pride.