Christ in a Borrowed Grave
John 19:41-42
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulcher, wherein was never man yet laid.…


I take it not to dishonour Christ, but to show that, as His sins were borrowed sins, so His burial was in a borrowed grave. Christ had no transgressions of His own; He took ours upon His head. He never committed a wrong, but He took all my sins, and all yours, if ye are believers. Concerning all His people, it is true He bore their griefs and carried their sorrows in His own body on the tree; therefore, as they were other's sins, so He rested in another's grave; as they were sins imputed, so that grave was only imputedly His. It was not His sepulchre; it was the tomb of Joseph.

(C. H. Spurgeon.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: 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.

WEB: Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.




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