John 19:42

Therefore because of the Jews' Preparation (because the sepulcher was near) they laid Jesus there.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

In Context

41Now a garden was in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new sepulcher in which no man was yet laid.

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Cross References

Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.

Matthew 12:40For as Jonah was in the belly of the sea-creature three days and three nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

John 19:20Therefore many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Latin.

John 19:41Now a garden was in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new sepulcher in which no man was yet laid.

1 Corinthians 15:4and that he was buried, and that he arose on the third day according to the scriptures,

Matthew Henry on John 19:39-42

The Burial of Christ. 38 And after this Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. 39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound weight. 40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is… Read the whole commentary →

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