Matthew 27:59

Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

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Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth

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So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

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And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

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Καὶ Kai And G2532 λαβὼν labōn having taken G2983 τὸ to the G3588 σῶμα sōma body G4983 ὁ ho (the) G3588 Ἰωσὴφ Iōsēph Joseph G2501 ἐνετύλιξεν enetulixen wrapped G1794 αὐτὸ auto it G846 ἐν en in G1722 σινδόνι sindoni a linen cloth G4616 καθαρᾷ kathara clean G2513

The early church

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This is no casual mention of the circumstances that the body was wrapped in clean linen, and laid in a new tomb, and a great stone rolled to the mouth, but that every thing touching the body of Jesus is clean, and new, and very great.
Origen of Alexandria · d. 253Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
He wraps the body in a clean linen cloth, in which same linen sheet were let down to Peter out of heaven all manner of living creatures; whence we understand, that under the representation of this linen cloth the Church is buried together with Christ.
Hilary of Poitiers · d. 367Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
By this simple burial of the Lord is condemned the ostentation of the rich, who cannot dispense with lavish expense even in their tombs. But we may also consider in a spiritual sense, that the Lord's body was wrapped not in gold, jewels, or silk, but in clean linen; and that he who wrapped it, is he who embraces Jesus with a pure heart.
Jerome · d. 420Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
The linen is grown out of the ground, and is bleached to whiteness with great labour, and thus this signifies that His body which was taken of the earth, that is of a Virgin, through the toil of passion came to the whiteness of immortality.
Remigius of Rheims · d. 533Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
From this also has prevailed in the Church the custom of celebrating the sacrifice of the altar not in silk, or in coloured robes, but in linen grown from the earth, as we read, was ordered by the Holy Pope Silvester.
Rabanus Maurus · d. 856Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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, Is 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.

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Mark 15:46Luke 23:53John 19:40–41

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