“For Thou wilt not leave my soul in the grave; neither wilt Thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”
Ps. 16:10
“He was taken from prison and from judgment… for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.”
Isa. 53:8-9
“When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 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.”
Mt. 27:57-60
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Subsections
Did Christ’s Person Die?
Hypostatic Union in Christ’s Death
“He Descended into ‘Hell’”
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Order of Contents
Articles 8
In Grave from Fri Eve to Sun Morning 3
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Articles
See also resources on The Suffering & Death of Christ’, ‘The Passion, Death, Resurrection & Ascension of Christ’ and ‘Commentaries on the Apostles’ Creed’ on ‘and buried’.
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1500’s
Coverdale, Miles – ‘The Burial of Jesus Christ, out of the Holy Evangelists’ 9 pp. in Fruitful Lessons upon the Passion, Burial, Resurrection, Ascension & of the Sending of the Holy Ghost, Gathered out of the Four Evangelists, with a Plain Exposition… (d. 1568; London, 1593) no page numbers
Olevian, Caspar – An Exposition of the Apostle’s Creed (London, 1581), pt. 2
Testimonies out of the prophets and apostles
To what end the burial of Christ tends and which are the fruits of it
Olevian (1536–1587) was a significant German reformed theologian, and has been said to be a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism along with Zacharias Ursinus (though this has been questioned).
Ursinus, Zachary – ‘And Buried’ in The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587), On the Apostles’ Creed, pp. 566-67
Beza, Theodore, Anthony Faius & Students – 44. ‘Of his Burial & Descension into Hell’ in Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius… (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591), pp. 115-21
Perkins, William – ‘Christ’s Burial’ in An Exposition of the Symbol, or Apostles’ Creed… (Cambridge, 1595), p. 287
Perkins (d. 1602) was an influential, puritan, Anglican clergyman and Cambridge theologian.
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1600’s
Bucanus, William – 24. ‘Of the Burial of Christ’ in Institutions of Christian Religion... (London: Snowdon, 1606), pp. 238-45
What is burial or burying?
What was the burial of Christ?
What is the chief cause thereof?
Who were the ministers and means of this burial?
What was the manner of his burial?
What are the subjects and adjuncts of Christ’s burial?
Where was the Lord buried?
What fell out about the burial of Christ?
How long did He lie in the grave?
But why did the Lord rest the whole Sabbath in his sepulcher?
How came it to pass that the body of Christ was all that while preserved from corruption?
What are the ends of Christ’s burial?
What be the effects of it?
What is the use of it?
Is it needful to bring again into use the Jews’ fashion of embalming bodies?
Does the burial of Christ belong to the state of the exinanition, or of the exaltation of Christ?
What is opposite to this burial?
Eliot, John – ch. 15, ‘Of the admirable works of God which accompanied the death of Jesus & his reverent burial, and of his sufferings after He was dead & buried’ in The Harmony of the Gospels in the Holy History of the Humiliation & Sufferings of Jesus Christ from his Incarnation to his Death & Burial (Boston, 1678), pp. 125-31
Eliot (1604-1690) was a puritan missionary to the American Indians.
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1800’s
Krummacher, Frederick W. – ch. 53, ‘The Interment’ in The Suffering Savior: Meditations on the Last Days of Christ (d. 1868; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1947), pp. 466-79
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That Christ was in the Grave from Fri Evening to Dawn on Sunday
This has been the majority Church history view.
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That Christ was Crucified on Friday
Christ was Crucified on Friday, the 15th of Nisan
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That Friday Evening to Dawn on Sunday counts as 3 Days in the Grave
Fentiman, Travis – ‘Objection: 3 Days in the Grave’ in The Biblical Sabbath is from Dawn to Dawn (RBO, 2018), pp. 77-83
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That Christ Rose at Dawn on Sunday, not Saturday Evening
Fentiman, Travis – pp. 75-77 of The Biblical Sabbath is from Dawn to Dawn (RBO, 2018)
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“Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. 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. And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.”
Mk. 15:43-37
“And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. 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. 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. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.”
Jn. 19:38-42
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Related Pages
Could Christ have Gotten Sick? (This deals with Christ’s incorruptibleness, including in the grave)