The week that Jesus died: Saturday

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Scripture - John 19:38-42 

Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away. He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. 

Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.  

At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.  Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

Today's highlight verse: 41  "At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid."

What happened after this point?  There are no Scripture references for Saturday, the Sabbath, the day between the burial and the resurrection.

So, let us look at His burial, in the context of His life.  As far as we know Jesus had few, if any, possessions.  Consider this:

He was formed in a borrowed womb. 

Born to a borrowed father, in a borrowed stable, and laid in a borrowed feeding trough. 

As He said of His life; "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

He rode into Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey.

Then, borrowing the sins of the entire population that ever lived and ever would, He laid down His life, and was laid in a borrowed tomb. 

From a borrowed womb to a borrowed tomb.

This season of Easter, may we appreciate His giving up all of Heaven, to live as He did, for us.

Questions:

 1. What do you think of this passage?

2. Why do you think Scripture does not refer to this day? 

3. How do you feel on this, the day He lay in the tomb?