Jesus Houdini?

The Easter story details sometimes go by unnoticed. The linen wrappings that covered the body of Jesus are a good example. According to the burial custom of the day, 100 pounds of linen cloth with burial spices mixed in to the wrapping, would have covered the body of Jesus. The cloth is wound tightly around the limbs and then the body itself, with a separate wrapping for the head. All of this results in an airtight seal.

Luke 24:12 (NLT)
However, Peter ran to the tomb to look. Stooping, he peered in and saw the empty linen wrappings; then he went home again, wondering what had happened.

I would wonder what had happened, too! How did Jesus get out of the wrapping when he came back to life again? It doesn’t say "a pile of ripped up linen" ala’ the Hulk. There was no one there to unwrap him. Mel Gibson’s, The Passion of the Christ, reenacts it with Jesus eerily flowing out of the cloths. This might be closer to the actual scene. Jesus, who has command of all dimensions through his glorified body (walking through walls [John 20:19]), can certainly escape his grave cloths and the tomb (Sorry, Mel, but the stone had been rolled aside after Jesus left, so people could look inside, not so Jesus could get out [Matthew 28:2]).

Amazing. And, and now I have a question. Why do we call it the “Empty Tomb?” There were linen wrappings still there. Probably because, “The Empty Tomb, Except for the 100 Pounds of Burial Linens,” is just too much of a mouthful.