John 19:38-42; 29:1-9 Reading
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus involved in Jesus burial-myrrh and aloes; new tomb (vs 38-42).
Mary of Magdala witnessed the empty tomb first-told Simon Peter; Simon Peter and the other disciple..tomb..strips of linen lying there, burial cloth..around Jesus’ head folded up by itself.
John 19:38-42
[38]After this, Joseph, who was from the town of Arimathea, asked Pilate if he could take Jesus’ body. (Joseph was a follower of Jesus, but in secret, because he was afraid of the Jewish authorities.) Pilate told him he could have the body, so Joseph went and took it away.
[39]Nicodemus, who at first had gone to see Jesus at night, went with Joseph, taking with him about thirty kilogrammes of spices, a mixture of myrrh and aloes.
[40]The two men took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen with the spices according to the Jewish custom of preparing a body for burial.
[41]There was a garden in the place where Jesus had been put to death, and in it there was a new tomb where no one had ever been buried.
[42]Since it was the day before the Sabbath and because the tomb was close by, they placed Jesus’ body there.
John 20:1-9
[1]Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been taken away from the entrance.
[2]She went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
[3]Then Peter and the other disciple went to the tomb.
[4]The two of them were running, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first.
[5]He bent over and saw the linen wrappings, but he did not go in.
[6]Behind him came Simon Peter, and he went straight into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there
[7]and the cloth which had been round Jesus’ head. It was not lying with the linen wrappings but was rolled up by itself.
[8]Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in; he saw and believed.
[9](They still did not understand the scripture which said that he must rise from death.)