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The Burial of Jesus
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Last Revised: 1/6/01
Matthew 27:57-61 Mark 15:42-47 Luke 23:50-56 John 19:38-42
                   27:57When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named
                        Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. 

                   27:58He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered
                        it to be given to him. 

                   27:59So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth 

                   27:60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He
                        then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away. 

                   27:61Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the
                        tomb. 

                    15:42When evening had come, and since it was the day of Preparation, that
                        is, the day before the sabbath, 

                   15:43Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was
                        also himself waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God, went boldly
                        to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 

                   15:44Then Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the
                        centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for some time. 

                   15:45When he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the
                        body to Joseph. 

                   15:46Then Joseph F133 bought a linen cloth, and taking down the body,
                        F134 wrapped it in the linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb that had been
                        hewn out of the rock. He then rolled a stone against the door of the
                        tomb. 

                   15:47Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body
                        F135 was laid. 
 

                   FOOTNOTES:
                   F133: Gk [he] 
                   F134: Gk [it] 
                   F135: Gk [it] 

                    23:50Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph, who, though
                        a member of the council, 

                   23:51had not agreed to their plan and action. He came from the Jewish
                        town of Arimathea, and he was waiting expectantly for the kingdom of
                        God. 

                   23:52This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 

                   23:53Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a
                        rock-hewn tomb where no one had ever been laid. 

                   23:54It was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was beginning. F199 

                   23:55The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they
                        saw the tomb and how his body was laid. 

                   23:56Then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the
                        sabbath they rested according to the commandment. 
 

                   FOOTNOTES:
                   F199: Gk [was dawning] 
 

                    19:38After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus,
                        though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to
                        let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so
                        he came and removed his body. 

                   19:39Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came,
                        bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred
                        pounds. 

                   19:40They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen
                        cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews. 

                   19:41Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in
                        the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. 

                   19:42And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb
                        was nearby, they laid Jesus there.