7 Bible Verses about Funerals

Now there was in Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which name, when translated, is Dorcas. She was full of good works and deeds of charity which she did. And it came to pass, in those days, that she was taken sick, and died. And when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. And as Lydda was near to Joppa, the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him, requesting him to make no delay in coming to them.read more.
Then Peter arose, and went with them; and when he had come, they brought him into the upper room; and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.

And when Jesus came into the house of the ruler, and saw the minstrels and the multitude making lamentation,

And he went and touched the bier; and those who were carrying it, stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to you, Arise.

And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher that had been hewed in rock, in which no one had yet been laid.

And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in clean linen,

And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulcher that had been hewed out of a rock: and he rolled a stone to the door of the sepulcher.

Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, according to the Jewish custom of burying. Now, in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. There, then, on account of the preparation-day of the Jews, they laid Jesus, for the tomb was near.