John 19:42
therefore, because the tomb was near, there they laid Jesus because of the Preparation of the Jews.
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Psalms 22:15My power is dried up as an earthen vessel, || And My tongue is cleaving to My jaws.
Matthew 12:40for as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man 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 was near to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Latin.
John 19:41and there was a garden in the place where He was crucified, and a new tomb in the garden, in which no one was yet laid;
1 Corinthians 15:4and that He was buried, and that He has risen on the third day according to the Writings,
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 →