War-weary Clavius had ended Yeshua's time on the cross with a spear in the torso to end the suffering, placing the body not in the mass grave nearby, but in its own cavernous tomb. Nearby Pharisees entreat Pilate to seal the tomb so that Yeshua's followers would not steal the body and claim Yeshua had risen from death as foretold after three days. Pilate, sensing a weakening of Rome's claim on the region should the people think Yeshua their Messiah, agrees, but after the third day, Clavius investigates to find the seal had indeed broken and no body has been found inside. Pilate orders Clavius to either find the body or find another means to end the story of Yeshua's power from taking hold throughout the land before the arrival of the Roman emperor Tiberius.