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Caiaphas and his companion returned twenty-four hours later and saw that everything  remained as  before, but  soon after  they arrived water began to trickle around the stone that sealed the entrance. It was animal-proof but not water-proof. Longinus said to Yosef, "It seems you built  this crypt over a  natural water spring." But Caiaphas demanded the soldiers roll the stone away that he might be assured the body remained within. But only the burial shroud was found inside.

Caiaphas was enraged and accused the Romans of removing the body during the Shabbat.Longinus said, "You saw your own mark on the seals. They were undisturbed, were they not?"

Caiaphas was forced to agree the tomb was not violated, yet the body was not there. Both he and the Romans had a serious problem now. Caiaphas said, 'You will say nothing of this to the people. In return, I will say nothing of this to Pilate. Are we agreed?"

The soldiers made the bargain and the  councilmen departed, yet they were constrained to  remain until the  four days  of their watch were completed. During that time the disciples made their way from Jerusalem to  Nazareth to  speak to  Yeshua's kinfolk. Both Miriam the mother of Yeshua and her step-son Yakob wondered greatly, as Yeshua was seen of them only the previous day.

And while they  pondered these  things Miriam  of Magdala  also arrived and said to them, "The Sanhedrin cannot find the body of Yeshua. The tomb they used to safeguard his body is empty!"

"Perhaps Yeshua merely swooned  at the  hands of  his captors," suggested Yakob, "and then escaped to make his way here."

"Half the  city  watched  his crucifixion  at  Damascus  Gate," replied Miriam. "I myself watched a  Roman soldier  pierce his heart with  a spear!" She did not underscore the fact  that the disciples had chosen to hide all that time, but it was implied.

So it was  thgat even  the  Lord's step-brother  Yakob came  to believe  Yeshua  had  risen  from  the dead,  and  he  told  the disciples the many strange  things Yeshua  had said  during his visit to his boyhood home just the day before,  as many of them he could not  understand  at  the time  they  were spoken,  but Yeshua's victory over death lifted as it were a veil.

Then Yakob was baptized by the disciples, and he was instructed by them of all that Yeshua  had said in Galilee  and Jerusalem, and in the days that followed  Yakob took up the  office of his step-brother and led the disciples in the way of the Nazarene.