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Mark 15:46

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So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus, wrapped it in the cloth, and placed it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

KJV

And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.

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This verse in Mark 15

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

LETTER 59, TO EPICTETUS 6 · Written before 373.

This above all shows the foolishness of those who say that the Word was changed into bones and flesh. For if this had been so, there would have been no need of a tomb. For the body would have gone by itself to preach to the spirits in Hades. But as it was, he himself went to preach, while the body that Joseph wrapped in a linen cloth laid away at Golgotha. And so it is demonstrated to all that the body was not the Word, but body of the Word.

This site's exposition

bought fine linen, and took him down

Joseph bought fine linen, took him down, and wrapped him in it, laying him in a sepulchre hewn out of a rock and rolling a stone unto the door, a burial fit for an honored man rather than the common pit ordinarily used for the crucified. The bench notes the specificity, a rock-hewn tomb, matches burial customs known from first-century Jerusalem, giving the account real historical texture. Every detail of the burial, done quickly before the sabbath, will matter for what the women find, and do not find, in the next chapter.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

on Mark 15:43-46

IT was a very dark day with the Church of God and with the cause of Christ, for the Lord Jesus was dead, and so the sun of their souls had set. "All the disciples forsook Him, and fled." "You shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave Me alone," were the sad words of Jesus—and they had come true. He was dead upon the Cross and His enemies hoped that that was the end of Him—while even His friends feared that it was so.

on Mark 15:39-47

The death of our Lord Jesus Christ is the most important fact in Christianity. On it depend the hopes of all saved sinners both for time and eternity. We need not therefore to be surprised to find the reality of His death carefully placed beyond dispute. Three kinds of witnesses to the fact are brought before us in the verses we have now read. The Roman centurion, who stood near the cross, — the women, who followed our Lord from Galilee to Jerusalem, — the disciples, who buried Him. All were all witnesses that Jesus really died.

The words behind it

26 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Isaiah 53:9He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.6 worksJohn 20:1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.5 worksMatthew 27:59–60So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,4 worksLuke 23:53Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.4 worksMark 16:3–4They were asking one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance of the tomb?”3 worksJohn 11:38Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.3 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
Isaiah 22:16What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?3 worksJohn 19:38–42Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.2 worksMatthew 28:2Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 53:9

    He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 27:57–60

      When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus.

    • 1 Peter 2:22

      “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

    • 1 John 3:5

      But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

    • Mark 15:43–46

      Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent Council member who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God, boldly went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

    • 2 Corinthians 5:21

      God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • Through

    Isaiah 22:16

    What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

    it leads to

    • Matthew 27:60

      and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    John 11:38

    Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

    it leads to

    • John 11:33

      When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

    • Luke 24:2

      They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

Where this verse is studied

About Mark

The Crown of Thorns — Gustave Doré (engraving), public domain
The Crown of Thorns — Gustave Doré (engraving), public domain
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This page draws on Athanasius of Alexandria, LETTER 59, TO EPICTETUS 6; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1789: “Joseph of Arimathaea” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament.

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