{"id":2039,"date":"2025-04-26T00:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-tomb-of-jesus-christ-in-shingo-japan\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T00:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T00:22:56","slug":"the-tomb-of-jesus-christ-in-shingo-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-tomb-of-jesus-christ-in-shingo-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tomb of Jesus Christ in Shingo, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the legend in Shingo, Japan,<br>\nwhen Jesus was 21 he visited Japan to<br>\n\u201cpursue knowledge of Divinity for 12 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At age 33, he traveled back to Judea to start<br>\nhis mission, but the people in Judea did not<br>\naccept him as the Son of God, and decided<br>\nto crucify him.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus brother, named Isukiri, took Jesus&#8217;s<br>\nplace on the cross and was crucified while<br>\nJesus escaped back to Japan and settled<br>\nthere in Shingo and had 3 children with<br>\na Japanese woman he married called<br>\nMiyuko.<\/p>\n<p>Until his death at 106, he shared wisdom<br>\nand kindness with the village people, though<br>\nhe was not said to have performed any<br>\nmiracles there.<\/p>\n<p>He is claimed to be buried in Shingo in a tomb<br>\nunder a mound embedded with a large wooden cross<br>\nstanding about 6 feet high. <\/p>\n<p>The burial site is considered a shrine that<br>\npilgrims visit and report feeling  a profound<br>\nsense of peace there.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the legend in Shingo, Japan, when Jesus was 21 he visited Japan to \u201cpursue knowledge of Divinity for 12 years.\u201d At age 33, he traveled back to Judea to start his mission, but the people in Judea did not accept him as the Son of God, and decided to crucify him. Jesus brother,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-tomb-of-jesus-christ-in-shingo-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}