John 19:40

God's Word

These two men took the body of Jesus and bound it with strips of linen. They laced the strips with spices. This was the Jewish custom for burial.

Cross References

Genesis 50:2

Then Joseph ordered the doctors in his service to embalm his father. So the doctors embalmed Israel.

2 Chronicles 16:14

They buried him in the tomb that he had prepared for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bed full of spices and blended perfumes. And they burned a bonfire in his honor.

Matthew 26:12

She poured this perfume on my body before it is placed in a tomb.

Mark 14:8

She did what she could. She came to pour perfume on my body before it is placed in a tomb.

Luke 24:12

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. He bent down to look inside and saw only the strips of linen. Then he went away, wondering what had happened.

John 11:44

The dead man came out. Strips of cloth were wound around his feet and hands, and his face was wrapped with a handkerchief. Jesus told them, “Free Lazarus, and let him go.”

John 12:7

Jesus said to Judas, “Leave her alone! She has done this to prepare me for the day I will be placed in a tomb.

Acts 5:6

Some young men got up, wrapped his body in a sheet, carried him outside, and buried him.