Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 27:59-60

"And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 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 tomb, and departed." — Matthew 27:59-60 (ASV)

Our King, even in the grave, must have the best of the best; his body was wrapped in a clean linen cloth, and laid in Joseph's own new tomb, thus completing the fulfillment of Isaiah 53:9.

Some see in this linen shroud an allusion to the garments in which priests were to be clothed. Joseph's was a virgin sepulcher, where up to that time no one had been buried, so that when Jesus rose, none could say that another came forth from the tomb instead of him.

That rock-hewn cell in the garden sanctified every part of God's acre where saints lie buried. Instead of longing to live until Christ comes, as some do, we might rather pray to have fellowship with Jesus in his death and burial.

Our King, even in the grave, must have the best of the best. His body was wrapped in a clean linen cloth and laid in Joseph’s own new tomb, thus completing the fulfillment of Isaiah 53:9. Some see in this linen shroud an allusion to the garments in which priests were to be clothed. Joseph’s tomb was new, a place in which no one had ever been buried, so that when Jesus rose, no one could claim that someone else had come out from the tomb instead of Him. That rock-hewn cell in the garden sanctified every part of the burial ground where saints lie buried. Instead of longing to live until Christ comes, as some do, we should rather pray to have fellowship with Jesus in His death and burial.