# How was Jesus dressed when He arose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 27, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-jesus-dressed-when-he-arose/579894 "2011-04-27T14:04:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-jesus-dressed-when-he-arose/579894/41 "2011-04-30T14:30:51Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > I have always wondered why time was taken to fold the head cloth,and if clothes were put in the tomb for Jesus,and why every one he knew(including his Mother) were surprised that he wasn’t there, when he had said he would rise on the 3d day!! > > If my child told me he would die in Friday and arise on Sunday morning, I would just expect him for breakfast, and I sure wouldn’t go to his tomb! His close followers must not have believed him. Yet we’re supposed to believe all that stuff 2000 years later. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-jesus-dressed-when-he-arose/579894/42 "2011-05-02T10:51:45Z")
This is Jesus we’re talking about. Doesn’t seem too out of character for him to bust out of the tomb naked, accost the gardener, cadge some clothes off the gardener, then meet Mary already clothed. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-jesus-dressed-when-he-arose/579894/43 "2011-05-02T17:03:33Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > \ Top hat! > Puttin on my > Top Hat! > Tyin’ on my > White Tie! > Puttin on > mt taaaiiills!\ I must admit that the first thing that popped into my head on seeing the thread title, was the “Puttin’ On The Ritz” sequence from _Young Frankenstein_. He didn’t actually have to be clothed - couldn’t there have been a strategic opaque white vapor? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-jesus-dressed-when-he-arose/579894/44 "2011-05-02T18:17:20Z")
Is the state of dress or undress of his (resurrected) body a major source of contention among the various Christian denominations? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-jesus-dressed-when-he-arose/579894/45 "2011-05-02T18:22:15Z")
The answer is shrouded in mystery. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-jesus-dressed-when-he-arose/579894/46 "2011-05-02T18:37:16Z")
Have we discuss celestial PJs with feet? No trap door because celestial bodies don’t have to poop. That’s actually what convinced Thomas but they had to change that a bit. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-jesus-dressed-when-he-arose/579894/47 "2011-05-02T20:58:02Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > The answer is shrouded in mystery. As are all the other questions relating to the life and times of Jesus H. Christ. ---
**Author:** ![Naxos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Naxos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naxos)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-jesus-dressed-when-he-arose/579894/48 "2011-05-03T01:13:59Z")
He didn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-jesus-dressed-when-he-arose/579894.md?page=2)