WHY, after the Death of Jesus, were TOMBS Opened and SAINTS Raised?
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Published Oct 1, 2026, 12:47 AM · 1w ago
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This video explains why the temple veil tore and why the tombs of the saints opened at the death of Jesus in Matthew 27:51-53, and what that often-skipped passage reveals about the meaning of the crucifixion and resurrection.
The study walks verse by verse through Matthew's account of the curtain in the Jerusalem temple being torn from top to bottom, the earthquake that split the rocks, and the many holy ones who were raised and later appeared in the city. It examines the original Greek wording, the historical and physical details of the temple veil, and the strange two-day gap between the tombs opening on Friday and the saints appearing after the resurrection on Sunday. It connects the event to the Feast of Firstfruits and to Paul's teaching that Christ is the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep, arguing that the passage shows the ordered logic of the resurrection rather than a minor miracle. It also separates what the biblical text actually states from what later tradition and speculation have added.
What's covered in this video:
The scene at three in the afternoon during Passover inside the Jerusalem temple, where a priest stands before the curtain separating the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies, the room only the high priest could enter once a year.
The tearing of the veil from top to bottom at the moment Jesus died on the Roman cross outside the city walls, as recorded in Matthew 27:50-51.
The physical scale of the veil, including the dimensions the first-century historian Josephus gives, roughly eighty feet tall, and its blue, scarlet, and purple colors.
A correction of a widely repeated claim: Josephus never wrote that the veil was four inches thick or that horses could not tear it, because the handbreadth-thickness and three-hundred-priests details come from the Mishnah, tractate Shekalim, not from Scripture or Josephus.
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