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MARK 6:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.”
On hearing of this, John's disciples came and took his body and laid it in a tomb — John's disciples provide the burial — the same burial service that will be provided for Jesus by Joseph of Arimathea (Mark 15:46). The laying in a tomb is the final act of honor for the prophet whose death has just been narrated. The disciples of John come and take care of his body — the act of faithful followers in the aftermath of their teacher's death. The tomb that receives John's body anticipates the tomb that will receive Jesus, and the empty tomb that will follow.

Church Fathers on Mark 6:29

The Evangelist Mark, taking occasion from what went before, here relates the death of the Forerunner, saying, 'For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her.'

Theophylact · 11th century

Ancient history relates, that Philip, the son of Herod the great, under whom the Lord fled into Egypt, the brother of this Herod, under whom Christ suffered, married Herodias, the daughter of king Aretas; but afterwards, that his father-in-law, after certain disagreements had arisen with his son-in-law, had taken his daughter away, and, to the grief of her former husband, had given her in marriage to his enemy; therefore John the Baptist rebukes Herod and Herodias for…

Bede · 8th century

Or else, the head of the law, which is Christ, is cut off from His own body, that is, the Jewish people, and is given to a Gentile damsel, that is, the Roman Church, and the damsel gives it to her adulterous mother, that is, to the synagogue, who in the end will believe. The body of John is buried, his head is put in a dish; thus the human Letter is covered over, the Spirit is honoured, and received on the altar.

Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century
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