Matthew 27:60
and laid it in his own new sepulcher, which he hewed out in the rock. And having rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, he departed.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
59And Joseph having taken the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
61And Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.
Cross References
Matthew 27:66And having gone, they made the tomb secure, with the security having sealed the stone.
Mark 16:3And they said to themselves, Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the sepulcher?
John 20:1Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene comes early, while it was still darkness, to the sepulcher, and sees the stone taken away from the sepulcher.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:58-66
The Burial of Christ. 57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting… Read the whole commentary →