By Fr. Andrew Dalton, LC, STD

Fr. Dalton turns to the Gospel of John and asks what, exactly, the Beloved Disciple saw in the empty tomb that moved him to believe. Tracing the Greek vocabulary of burial across John 11, 19, and 20, he argues that it was the specific condition of the burial cloths — not merely the empty tomb — that gave John reason to conclude that Jesus had risen from the dead.

Fr. Andrew Dalton, LC, is a biblical scholar and Professor of Shroud Studies at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, and a board member of the Othonia Research Group.