So Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and after rolling a great stone against the opening of the tomb, he went away.

One young man, however, began following him, with only a linen sheet thrown round his naked body.

They seized him, but he left the linen sheet and fled away naked.

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and made merry every day in splendor.

Then taking it down, he wrapped it in linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no man has ever been laid.

Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb, but when he stooped and looked in he saw the linen wrappings by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering at that which was come to pass.

So they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.

Stooping down he glanced in and saw the linen wrapping lying on the ground; but he did not go in.

Then Peter also came following him, and he went inside the tomb; and he gazed at the linen wrapping as they lay,

and there came out of the sanctuary the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were clothed in white linen, pure and bright, and girt about the breasts with golden girdles.

"And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, For no one buys their merchandise any more??12 Merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones, Of pearls, and fine linen, and purple and silk and scarlet; All citron wood, and vessels of ivory, And vessels of rare wood and brass and iron and marble;

saying. "'Woe, woe, the great city! She who was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, And adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!

And it has been granted to her to array herself in fine linen, bright and pure; For the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints."

And the armies of heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure.