Vindicating John’s Gospel - First Things

Vindicating John’s Gospel - First Things

In March, a team of archaeologists excavating beneath Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher announced a new finding: ancient pollen and other botanical evidence indicating a garden had been there two thousand years ago. The finding corroborates John’s account of Jesus’s passion and death: “Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb where no one had ever been laid. So because of the Jewish day of P…