John 19:42

And there they laid Jesus, because the sabbath had commenced, and because the sepulchre was near.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

41And there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden a new sepulchre in which no person had ever been laid.

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Cross References

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 19:20And many of the Jews read this label; because the place where Jesus was crucified, was near to Jerusalem; and it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin.

John 19:41And there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden a new sepulchre in which no person had ever been laid.

1 Corinthians 15:4and that he was buried and arose on the third day, as it is written:

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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