Thanks. I'm currently taking a break from writing about religion, and I'd forgotten about that doorman analogy.

Besides Lazarus, there are the many holy zombies whose tombs broke open and who went into the city after Jesus' resurrection, as told in Matt. 27:52-53. I suppose, though, Lazarus's should be crucial because it was first.

But the fact that Matthew treats the "many" resurrections afterward so matter-of-factly should trouble Christians. Because if that dubious assertion (in 27:52-53) is confused window-dressing, allegory, or boasting, why should the description of Jesus's resurrection be taken literally or at face value? And if many were resurrected and turned into zombies, what became of them? Why are there no other reports of it, not even in the other gospels?