6 Bible Verses about Burials, Features

But, as it happened, just at that time she was taken ill and died. After washing her body they laid it out in a room upstairs.

In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare me for burial.

The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped in cloths, and his face wrapped round with a towel. "Untie him," said Jesus, "and let him go free."

Then He went close and touched the bier, and the bearers halted. "Young man," He said, "I command you, wake!"

and a considerable number of the Jews were with Martha and Mary, having come to express sympathy with them on the death of their brother.

"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are just like whitewashed sepulchres, the outside of which pleases the eye, though inside they are full of dead men's bones and of all that is unclean. The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and disregard of God's Law. "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you repair the sepulchres of the Prophets and keep in order the tombs of the righteous,