Bible Seeds:  Joseph of Arimathea was given permission by Pilate to take the body of Jesus’ and give it a burial in a new tomb he had just prepared for himself.<br /> <br />In the <b>book of John, Chapter 19, verse 39</b>, <i><b>“Joseph and another disciple named Nicodemus, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.”</b></i> The Jews prepared a body for burial like they were taught when they lived in Egypt, and now it was their custom to use a mixture of myrrh and aloes to bind the body with strips of linen, and it would be wet until it solidified. . . . or like a mummy!<br /> <br />This is probably what the apostles saw in the tomb, an empty shell without a body! And they believed! What happened to Jesus during the three days before the tomb was opened is not immediately told in a story form but is discovered in other readings. <br /> <br />From these readings, we find out where the real Paradise is.  It's not up there,  but down below the Earth!