In c. AD 30, The Jerusalem Church's official position was “yes, Jesus's body was placed in a tomb”1
So what? Couldn't it simply be that…
• …they accepted this belief without evidence?1
• …they were accidentally endorsing a lie that they had fallen for?2
• …they lyingly said this (intending to invent empty tomb apologetics)?3
In AD 30, the public stance of the Jerusalem Jews was that “Yes, Jesus's body is gone from its tomb” (crying “theft!”).
But so what? Couldn't it simply be it be that…
• …they accepted this belief without evidence?1
• …they were accidentally endorsing a lie that they had fallen for?2
• …they lyingly said this (intending to invent empty tomb apologetics)?3
Specifically, the Sanhedrin member Joseph of Arimatha placed Jesus's body in a tomb.
Acts 13:29 -- [t]hey took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.
So? Plausibly…
• … The Acts 13:29 report is unjustified? (But)1
• Hans Conzelmann: “...the form here is kerygmatic, not narrative.” [Acts of the Apostles, trans. by Limburg et. al., Ed. by Epp, Matthews (Fortress, 1963, 1987), 105.] That is to say, it was part of the original kernal preaching.
• Gary Habermas: “What may be another early creed (Acts 13:29-31, 36-37) even more clearly indicates that Jesus was buried in a tomb,” [“The Case for Christ's Resurrection” in To Everyone an Answer (IVP, 2004), 189.]