Dear friends, as I believe this is my calling, I am doing some major research on the Garden Tomb of Jesus. Which will be added to my next new HD documentary, after my final visits from the tomb in the garden.

The next articles you receive are based on my personal, independent research, to establish the evidence, which proves the facts and hopefully confirm the truth.

I am already excited to have discovered new evidence and information on the garden tomb, missed and overlooked by other Garden Tomb researchers, which I will be slowly sharing with you over the course.

May I say, I am very grateful to some of you for your interest, research comments and feedback I have received, on a subject I believe to be the most important site in human history, revealing the place where our King Jesus was crucified, buried and raised from the dead, fulfilling 100's of Bible prophecies, which also confirms the absolute accuracy of the gospels.

Please do keep your thoughts, research and comments coming in, as they truly do help me establish the truth, of which your research I will share, and as they are also helping me to be corrected, if you can prove me wrong, and also helping me to remain humble and open minded.

As my new blog states: It is not my purpose to force you to agree or believe with what's on my web sites, but rather to share my research in hope to encourage you with the accuracy of the Bible, and help you make up your own mind.

WHAT STONE FITS THE GARDEN TOMB OF JESUS? Part 1 of 3.

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  1 Thessalonians 5:21.

My desire is to reveal the truth, no matter what the cost. But praying in Jesus for His Holy Spirit is vital, as without Him it is impossible, and we are just religious people.

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We will briefly look into the investigations and study of materials and sources of two main candidates, who have done a great deal of research on the garden tomb, of which the last and third is my own discovery.

Part 1. Research by John A. Tvedtnes.

Part 2. Research by Ron Wyatt.

Part 3. Research by myself, Simon Brown.

I will put forward their claims of what and why they believe the size of the stone is, to this Garden Tomb of Jesus.

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Research by John A. Tvedtnes, instructor at the Brigham Young University-Salt Lake Center for Continuing Education, doctoral candidate in Egyptian and Semitic languages at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and trustee of the Society for Early Historic Archaeology.

John A. Tvedtnes inspired me with an article he wrote called: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES FOR THE GARDEN TOMB, JERUSALEM.

I believe John has done some wonderful research, of which I mostly agree.

But I am only focusing on his research with what he believes the size of the stone is, and no more at this stage.

In short, John states in his research, because of the large door entrance, the tomb would require a large stone to seal such a large door entrance.

He goes on to say, the fact St John and Mary Magdalene had to stoop down to look inside the tomb as we are told in John 20:5 - 11. Proves the door entrance to the tomb must have been small. He does not say the actual size, but from his drawing I made below, similar to his diagram here which you can see on his web site, which looks like he believes the stone is only about 4 to 6 foot in diameter.

Stone size theory around 5 to 6 foot diameter by John A. Tvedtnes.

Sadly we are all humans, capable of making mistakes, and from my research it is very clear John has made a serious error here.

It is very easy to establish the facts and reveal this simple mistake by firstly looking at John 20:5.

John A. Tvedtnes is looking at the Bible verses - So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. John 20:3 - 5.

So because of the words and translation: He bent over, John and others believe the door entrance was less then half the size as it is today.

But sadly, not realising the real words and translation do not say John bent over to look in the tomb, but instead says -

Here we see St John did not bend down, but stooped side ways, proving the size of the door entrance was the same as it is today.

This makes perfect sense because the grave of Jesus is on the right side of the tomb, which confirms with the right translation.

Model of the tomb.

St John had to stoop sideways, as Jesus body was on the right hand side corner, so he could see the body of Jesus, and not bending down and then looking sideways.

In fact if we look at this ancient photo of the sepulchre of Jesus in the tomb, we discover something very interesting indeed.

Ancient photo of the sepulchre of Jesus in the tomb,

Sadly , I do not understand why John has also neglected what the gospels say, which says and confirms the stone was unique, by saying it was a 'GREAT' stone indeed, yet he has added a small stone to the garden tomb, no different to any other.

John is not fully understanding the reason the stone was said to be GREAT. It needed to be GREAT to accommodate a great size doorway, completely opposite to the traditional tombs.

A GREAT stone was needed to accommodate a GREAT size doorway.

So we have now established there is a vital mistake on the size of the DOOR, making the size of what is a GREAT stone far to small.

I hope my research has proved here that the theory of a small door and stone is wrong.

It is NOT a small stone, but a 'GREAT' stone indeed, just as written in the gospels.

This now explains why two of the Garden tomb staff told me and my wife Emma, the GREAT stone at Mount Nebo is to large, which is so sadly misleading and discrediting the word of God, in His extremely reliable Holy Bible.

My problem is who will believe my research? I am dyslexic, never went to school, and have no letters after my name or any 'O' levels, but instead I have only a simple spirit level and a tape-measure, compared to someone like intelligent John from University with historical archaeology knowledge.

However, If you do have confidence in my research and would like to learn more regarding the garden tomb, then please do join me again in part 2 of our next candidate, next week, when we will jump from a small 5 foot stone to a 13 foot 'MASSIVE' stone, believed to also be the stone to the tomb of Jesus, as said and discovered by Ron Wyatt.

Please also see Howard's comments below who has been very kindly helping me with the translations of the Bible verses.

I am Simon Brown.

May God bless you.

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Note. I Simon Brown did not discover the garden tomb or seal in the tomb wall.

Hi Simon!

John 20:5: "And having leaned beside(literally peeking in] he is observing the bandages that were lying, but he did not enter."

Simon

v.6 -7 '"...And he viewed the bandages lying ,and the sweat cloth that had been on His head ,but not lying with the bandages, but apart from having been rolled up into one place."

Note:v 8 John later just goes right inside the tomb no stooping in Greek is mentioned.

The sweat cloth was rolled or coiled around and around entulisso Gk. So They wrapped that cloth around and around His head, but it was lying there in that it was now hollow or the head/body was gone yet it still has the form! The same for the bandages. It says it was 'one place' Gk. where the wrapped head 'turban' or sweat cloth was coiled in the same form as when they wrapped it around His head.

We know Jesus just passed through them unlike Lazarus Jn. 11:44

These bandages were lying on a flat -to some degree- surface. They were laid out or elongated.

I did see in Mark 16:5 the angel was sitting on the right side of the inside of the tomb. We know the GT is laid out where the bodies would be on the right side.

The women just entered right into the tomb no bending over is seen in Greek.

"Why do you seek the living among the dead." I read where they found not too long ago where near the GT was buried 17 people. This then would make even more sense. He was' living' the others were dead!

That's all for now.