Luke 23:53 meaning and explanation
Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.
Luke 23:53, Berean Standard Bible
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Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the council who had not agreed to Jesus' condemnation, has just received permission from Pilate to take down the body. Luke, writing for Gentile readers, records the careful burial: the linen wrapping and a rock-cut tomb never before used.
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