Bible Verses About Sepulchres
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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
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And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth–el.
The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
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.
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.
Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
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