John 19:40
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New International Version
Taking Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.


English Standard Version
So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.


New American Standard Bible
So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.


King James Bible
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then they took Jesus' body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.


International Standard Version
They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths along with spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.


American Standard Version
So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.


Douay-Rheims Bible
They took therefore the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.


Darby Bible Translation
They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it up in linen with the spices, as it is the custom with the Jews to prepare for burial.


Young's Literal Translation
They took, therefore, the body of Jesus, and bound it with linen clothes with the spices, according as it was the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial;


Cross References
Genesis 50:2
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.


2 Chronicles 16:14
And they buried him in his own sepulchers, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' are: and they made a very great burning for him.


Matthew 26:12
For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.


Mark 14:8
She has done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.


Luke 24:12
Then arose Peter, and ran to the sepulcher; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.


John 11:44
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to them, Loose him, and let him go.


John 12:7
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying has she kept this.


John 20:5
And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.


John 20:7
And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.


Acts 5:6
And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.


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Commentaries
19:38-42 Joseph of Arimathea was a disciple of Christ in secret. Disciples should openly own themselves; yet some, who in lesser trials have been fearful, in greater have been courageous. When God has work to do, he can find out such as are proper to do it. The embalming was done by Nicodemus, a secret friend to Christ, though not his constant follower. That grace which at first is like a bruised reed, may afterward resemble a strong cedar. Hereby these two rich men showed the value they had for Christ's person and doctrine, and that it was not lessened by the reproach of the cross. We must do our duty as the present day and opportunity are, and leave it to God to fulfil his promises in his own way and his own time. The grave of Jesus was appointed with the wicked, as was the case of those who suffered as criminals; but he was with the rich in his death, as prophesied, Isa 53:9; these two circumstances it was very unlikely should ever be united in the same person. He was buried in a new sepulchre; therefore it could not be said that it was not he, but some other that rose. We also are here taught not to be particular as to the place of our burial. He was buried in the sepulchre next at hand. Here is the Sun of Righteousness set for a while, to rise again in greater glory, and then to set no more.

40. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury—the mixed and pulverized myrrh and aloes shaken into the folds, and the entire body, thus swathed, wrapt in an outer covering of "clean linen cloth" (Mt 27:59). Had the Lord's own friends had the least reason to think that the spark of life was still in Him, would they have done this? But even if one could conceive them mistaken, could anyone have lain thus enveloped for the period during which He was in the grave, and life still remained? Impossible. When, therefore, He walked forth from the tomb, we can say with the most absolute certainty, "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept" (1Co 15:20). No wonder that the learned and the barbarians alike were prepared to die for the name of the Lord Jesus; for such evidence was to the unsophisticated resistless. (No mention is made of anointing in this operation. No doubt it was a hurried proceeding, for fear of interruption, and because it was close on the sabbath, the women seem to have set this as their proper task "as soon as the sabbath should be past" [Mr 16:1]. But as the Lord graciously held it as undesignedly anticipated by Mary at Bethany [Mr 14:8], so this was probably all the anointing, in the strict sense of it, which He received.)
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