59 Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud
59 Joseph took the body and wrapped it in clean linens,
59 When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
59 Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a long sheet of clean linen cloth.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Matthew 27:59
Commentary on Matthew 27:57-61
(Read Matthew 27:57-61)
In the burial of Christ was nothing of pomp or solemnity. As Christ had not a house of his own, wherein to lay his head, while he lived, so he had not a grave of his own, wherein to lay his body, when he was dead. Our Lord Jesus, who had no sin of his own, had no grave of his own. The Jews designed that he should have made his grave with the wicked, should have been buried with the thieves with whom he was crucified, but God overruled it, so that he should make it with the rich in his death, Isaiah 53:9. And although to the eye of man the beholding a funeral may cause terror, yet if we remember how Christ by his burial has changed the nature of the grave to believers, it should make us rejoice. And we are ever to imitate Christ's burial in being continually occupied in the spiritual burial of our sins.