A comma was removed in the eleventh Urantia Foundation printing -- "second,
or even the third, day such" changed to "second, or even the third
day such "
Original Paragraph:
P1837:2, 167:4.3
The Jews were in the habit of burying their dead on the day of their demise;
this was a necessary practice in such a warm climate. It often happened that
they put in the tomb one who was merely comatose, so that on the second
or even the third, day such a one would come forth from the tomb. But
it was the belief of the Jews that, while the spirit or soul might linger near
the body for two or three days, it never tarried after the third day; that decay
was well advanced by the fourth day, and that no one ever returned from the
tomb after the lapse of such a period. And it was for these reasons that Jesus
tarried yet two full days in Philadelphia before he made ready to start for
Bethany.