The Lost body Hypothesis tries to explain the empty tomb of Jesus by a naturally occurring event, not by resurrection, fraud, theft or coma.
[3] The Gospel of Matthew in this theory is seen to be hinting at the earthquake events in verse 12:40:[4] the Son of Man descending for three days in the heart of the earth, like Jonah was in the whale's belly.
John in his Gospel (12:24)[5] and Paul in his Letters (1 Corinthians 15:36)[6] used the image of a grain of wheat falling in the earth for the event of death and resurrection of Jesus.
According to the radical German rationalist and spiritualist Johann Christian Edelmann [de] in his Confession of Faith (1746) the Matthean earthquake had buried the body and therefore it was lost.
[citation needed] The church father Origen has interpreted the Matthean earthquake as a historical but local, Judean phenomenon.