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. In the book of John, Chapter 19, verse 39, “Joseph and another disciple named Nicodemus, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.” 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! 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.  From these readings, we find out where the real Paradise is.  It's not up there,  but down below the Earth!