Who got Jesus' stuff when he died?

[DetlefK]

I mean, whether he was the Son of God or just a mortal cult-leader, he was damn important to his followers.

So, what happend to his earthly possessions? He surely had a spare coat, a spare belt, some spare sandals, a spare comb, a favorite walking-stick...

Jesus surely had a wallet. (Who PAID for the last supper?)



My question is: What happened to his stuff after his death? Why don't they show up as relics somewhere?

[hrmjustin]

1. The bible says that the soldiers cast lots for his cloak and split the rest.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. What happened to his family?

They basically disappeared, with the possible exception of one brother, but he had several siblings. It is almost as if they never existed.

[iscooterliberally]

3. i think these questions were covered here...

[trotsky]

5. LOL, I thought of the same scene from the same movie! n/t

[iscooterliberally]

7. The greatest story ever told! ;-) n/t

[El Supremo]

4. There are enough robe relics to cloth an army.

And enough pieces of the true cross to build a ship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamless_robe_of_Jesus

[hedgehog]

8. WHich doesn't prove there never was a robe or cross,

just that a sucker is born every minute.

[KansDem]

6. Just a guess...

What happened to his stuff after his death?

Maybe his things were donated to the Eternal-Salvation Army?

[trotsky]

15. Ha!

Nice.

[MADem]

9. His wife, maybe?

Hey, he was a 33 year old Jewish man--I think he was married! Maybe she sold the stuff, or passed it down to his kids...?

[TrogL]

10. Joseph of Arimathea paid for the Last Supper

[bvf]

11. You just invented a new cottage industry.

I'm happy to say I'm making available to the public, for the very first time, a piece of The True Spare Belt (tm).

Volume discounts also available. Details on request.

[your bunny wrote]

12. nobody can proof it

i dont belive in this tales

[Agnosticsherbet]

13. He was an intenerant preacher in the last years of his life, so he probably carried very few things

when he was arrested. He would have had what he carried in a small bag. Most of that stuff would have been unlikely to survive two thousand years.

The tradition at the time was to wrap the body in a single linen shroud (think the shroud of Turin), which is not considered authentic.

His property would have gone to his wife or his oldest male relative who would look after Jesus Wife. (And, yes, a traditional Jew at the time would have been married to a woman chosen by this family.)

For most of the fist century after his death, Christianity had few adherents, and it unlikely that much of his stuff would have survived.

It was a bit later in history, when Christianity became the mainstream religion where his "relics" were thought to provide miracles. Back then, religious relics were big bussiness.

[pinto]

14. LOL.

Who knows, who cares?

[cbayer]

16. It was all stolen by his captors.

So much for the old adage that non-believers know more about the bible than believers.

[trotsky]

19. ZOMG, you got the bad guys with that one!

This one question definitely proves all the studies showing exactly that are full of crap!

[struggle4progress]

17. Yeah! What happened to his smart phone? And his Harley? And his Earth Shoes and

his Groucho glasses and his copy of the New Testament and his Swiss army knife?

[cbayer]

18. And his wine collection! I am really interested in the wine collection.

[struggle4progress]

20. The folks who got that were disappointed

[cbayer]

21. Lol! Drat, i was sure it had already been changed.

[greendog]

22. His collection of Girlie Magazines have been passed down...

...through the Popes.

There were 23 of them. Frank has 17 and Benny is hanging on to the remaining 6.