Mark 15:46

46 And [after] purchasing a linen cloth [and] taking him down, he wrapped [him] in the linen cloth and placed him in a tomb that had been cut from the rock. And he rolled a stone over the entrance of the tomb.

Mark 15:46 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 15:46

And he bought fine linen
That is, Joseph, as is expressed in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Persic versions; which, when he had done, as is highly probable, in the city of Jerusalem, he went to Mount Calvary,

and took him down;
took the body of Christ down from the cross; though, no doubt, with the assistance of others, or by others, and not he himself, at least not alone:

and wrapped him in the linen;
wound him up in it, as was the manner of the Jews; (See Gill on Matthew 27:59);

and laid him in a sepulchre, which was hewn out of a rock, and
rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre;
(See Gill on Matthew 27:60).

Mark 15:46 In-Context

44 And Pilate was surprised that he was already dead, and summoning the centurion, asked him whether he had died already.

45 And [when he] learned of [it] from the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph.

46 And [after] purchasing a linen cloth [and] taking him down, he wrapped [him] in the linen cloth and placed him in a tomb that had been cut from the rock. And he rolled a stone over the entrance of the tomb.

47 Now Mary Magdalene and Mary the [mother] of Joses saw where he was placed.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[after]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("purchasing") which is understood as temporal
• [b]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the participle ("taking...down") has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style
• [c]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation