Bible Strands
Luke 23:53
Then 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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Joseph of Arimathe places Jesus’ body in a new rock-hewn tomb immediately after securing it from Pilate, just before the Sabbath begins on Preparation Day.
The words — καθελὼν (kathelōn) literally means "having taken down," and σινδὸνι (sindōnē) denotes the specific linen cloth used to wrap the corpse.
The thread — This burial sequence mirrors the accounts in Matthew 27:59 and Mark 15:46, while directly echoing Isaiah 53:9's pattern of a grave assigned with the rich.
Why it lands — The text records the physical handling and placement of the body in an unused tomb before any theological conclusion, requiring the reader to accept the factual sequence of events prior to drawing doctrinal inferences.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
Cross-references
- Matthew 27:59 So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
- 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.
- Mark 15:46 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.