Matthew 27:60 meaning and explanation

and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.

Matthew 27:60, Berean Standard Bible

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Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy disciple, has just received Jesus' body from Pilate. In first-century Jerusalem the dead were wrapped in linen and laid in a tomb cut into rock, often a family tomb prepared ahead of time.

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