Complex sentence: A couple of days later, Marcus is summoned before Pilate and told that the soldiers at the tomb claim to have been blinded by a great light and that when they regained their sight, the body of Jesus was gone.
Split into simpler sentences: A couple of days later, Marcus is summoned before Pilate. He is told that the soldiers at the tomb claim to have been blinded by a great light, and that when they regained their sight, the body of Jesus was gone.