Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
- KJV Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
- BSB Now there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
- NKJV 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.
- NLT The place of crucifixion was near a garden, where there was a new tomb, never used before.
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Jesus is laid in a new, unused tomb in a nearby garden. The fresh tomb guards against any confusion about the resurrection.
Overview
The new tomb, where no one had been laid, ensures that the one who rises can only be Jesus, leaving no room for mistaken identity. The garden setting subtly echoes Eden, where death entered; here, in a garden, death will be undone. The detail also fulfills the honor due the Messiah in his burial.
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Cross-references · 6
- Matt 27:60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.
- Luke 23:53He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.
- John 20:15Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
- Isa 22:16‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
- Matt 27:64–66Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
- 2 Kgs 23:30His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.
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