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MATTHEW 27:59 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 27:58Matt 27:60
“And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,”
And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud. The clean linen shroud communicates the care and honor of the burial. The linen that will be left in the tomb at the resurrection (John 20:5–7) is the burial cloth that the risen Jesus leaves behind.

Church Fathers on Matthew 27:59

When the Evangelist had finished the order of the Lord’s Passion and death, he treats of His burial.

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation · non occ.

Arimathea is the same as Ramatha, the city of Helcana and Samuel, and is situated in the Chananitic country near Diospolis. This Joseph was a man of great dignity in respect of worldly station, but has the praise of much higher merit in God’s sight, seeing he is described as righteous. Indeed he that should have the burial of the Lord’s body ought to have been such, that he might be deserving of that office by righteous merit.

Remigius · 9th century

He is described as rich, not out of any ambition on the part of the writer to represent so noble and rich a man as Jesus' disciple, but to shew how he was able to obtain the body of Jesus from Pilate. For poor and unknown individuals would not have dared to approach Pilate, the representative of Roman power, and ask the body of a crucified malefactor.

Jerome · 4th century
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