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Jesus’ burial (John 19:38-42)
John Low, 9 April 2017
Part of the The Week The World Changed series, Sunday Evening service
Why do all four Gospel writers take time discussing Jesus’ burial? Two men who secretly believed in Jesus came forward to bury him then disappear from the story. Some women and a few others looked on as they laid his body in a new tomb. At least he was buried, most condemned men were denied even that.
Was this the end of the man who claimed to be sent into this world by God the Father, the one who said the Son of Man must suffer, be killed and after three days rise again?
John 19:38-42
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John 19:38–42 (Listen)
38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. 39 Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. 40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. 42 So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
(ESV)