John 19:41

Now there was a garden near the cross, and in the garden a new place for the dead in which no man had ever been put.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

In Context

40Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest.

42So they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the Passover, and the place was near.

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:30And his servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth there. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father.

Matthew 27:60And put it in the resting-place which had been cut out of the rock for himself; and after rolling a great stone to the door of it he went away.

Luke 23:53And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.

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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