“And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,”

Matthew 27:59 (KJV) |

Matthew 27:59

From Matthew 27, in the Book of Matthew (New Testament).

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57

When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:

58

He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

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And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

60

And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

61

And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

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