Section 133 D, Jesus is buried
Section 133
THE CRUCIFIXION
Subdivision D
JESUS FOUND TO BE DEAD. HIS BODY BURIED AND GUARDED IN THE TOMB
MATT 27:57-66
MARK 15:42-47
LUKE 23:50-56
JOHN 19:31-42
My summary: John recounts that soliders came to break Jesus' legs, but he was already dead. They "pierced his side with a spear." On that Friday evening (immediately before the Saturday Sabbath) Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin, went to Pilate to request the body of Jesus. Pilate released it to him; then he and Nicodemus prepared it with spices and laid it in Joseph's own tomb, rolling a stone in front of it. The women were also there. The chief priests and elders recalled Jesus commenting that he would rise on the third day, so they requested to be able to seal and guard his tomb. Pilate agreed to this.
"It is strange that those who were not afraid to be disciples were afraid to ask for our Lord's body, yet he who was afraid to be a disciple feared not to do this thing." -Fourfold
"Myrrh was a resin and the aloe was pulverized wood. Both were aromatic--Ps. 45:8." -Fourfold
"As Jesus died about three o'clock in the afternoon, and as all work had to stop at sunset, which was the beginning of the Sabbath, Joseph was much hurried in his efforts to bury Jesus. The context, therefore, shows that our Lord was not completely embalmed by him. The body of Jesus might have been kept elsewhere until after the Sabbath; but because the tomb was near it appears to have been used temporarily, and the preparation of spices by the women shows that even that part of the burial was not, in their estimation, completed. This unfinished burial led the women back to the tomb early on the first day of the week, and thus brought to the disciples the glad news of the resurrection without any needless delay." -Fourfold
"But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water."
-John 19:34
"It has been argued very plausibly that this was a natural phenomenon, the result of a rupture of the heart which, it is assumed, was the immediate cause of death, and which was followed by an effusion of blood into the pericardium. This blood, separated into its thicker and more liquid parts, flowed forth when the pericardium was pierced by the spear. I think, however, with Meyer, that John evidently intends to describe the incident as something entirely unexpected and marvelous, and that this explanation better suits the solemn asseveration of Joh_19:35. That the fact had a symbolic meaning to the Evangelist is evident from 1Jn_5:6." -Vincent's Word Studies
Interesting angle from Vincent's Word Studies:
"It is a significant fact that, reckoning the aggregate space occupied by the four Gospels, nearly one-sixth of the whole amount is occupied with the account of the twenty-four hours beginning with the last supper and ending with the burial of Jesus. There is no day in all Bible history narrated with the fulness of that day. If we possessed the whole life of Christ, written with the same detail, the record would occupy one hundred and eighty volumes as large as the whole Bible."
THE CRUCIFIXION
Subdivision D
JESUS FOUND TO BE DEAD. HIS BODY BURIED AND GUARDED IN THE TOMB
MATT 27:57-66
MARK 15:42-47
LUKE 23:50-56
JOHN 19:31-42
My summary: John recounts that soliders came to break Jesus' legs, but he was already dead. They "pierced his side with a spear." On that Friday evening (immediately before the Saturday Sabbath) Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin, went to Pilate to request the body of Jesus. Pilate released it to him; then he and Nicodemus prepared it with spices and laid it in Joseph's own tomb, rolling a stone in front of it. The women were also there. The chief priests and elders recalled Jesus commenting that he would rise on the third day, so they requested to be able to seal and guard his tomb. Pilate agreed to this.
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| The Entombment, Antonio Ciseri, 1883 |
"It is strange that those who were not afraid to be disciples were afraid to ask for our Lord's body, yet he who was afraid to be a disciple feared not to do this thing." -Fourfold
"Myrrh was a resin and the aloe was pulverized wood. Both were aromatic--Ps. 45:8." -Fourfold
"As Jesus died about three o'clock in the afternoon, and as all work had to stop at sunset, which was the beginning of the Sabbath, Joseph was much hurried in his efforts to bury Jesus. The context, therefore, shows that our Lord was not completely embalmed by him. The body of Jesus might have been kept elsewhere until after the Sabbath; but because the tomb was near it appears to have been used temporarily, and the preparation of spices by the women shows that even that part of the burial was not, in their estimation, completed. This unfinished burial led the women back to the tomb early on the first day of the week, and thus brought to the disciples the glad news of the resurrection without any needless delay." -Fourfold
"But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water."
-John 19:34
"It has been argued very plausibly that this was a natural phenomenon, the result of a rupture of the heart which, it is assumed, was the immediate cause of death, and which was followed by an effusion of blood into the pericardium. This blood, separated into its thicker and more liquid parts, flowed forth when the pericardium was pierced by the spear. I think, however, with Meyer, that John evidently intends to describe the incident as something entirely unexpected and marvelous, and that this explanation better suits the solemn asseveration of Joh_19:35. That the fact had a symbolic meaning to the Evangelist is evident from 1Jn_5:6." -Vincent's Word Studies
Interesting angle from Vincent's Word Studies:
"It is a significant fact that, reckoning the aggregate space occupied by the four Gospels, nearly one-sixth of the whole amount is occupied with the account of the twenty-four hours beginning with the last supper and ending with the burial of Jesus. There is no day in all Bible history narrated with the fulness of that day. If we possessed the whole life of Christ, written with the same detail, the record would occupy one hundred and eighty volumes as large as the whole Bible."
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