7 Bible Verses about Funerals

Among the disciples at Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, which is in Greek Dorcas, that is, gazelle. She had devoted herself to doing good and to acts of charity. Just at that time it happened that she had been taken ill and had died, and they had washed her body and laid her out in a room upstairs. As Joppa was near Lydda, the disciples heard that Peter was there, and they sent two men to him, urging him to come over without delay.read more.
Peter went with them at once. When he arrived, they took him up to the room and all the widows stood around him crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made when she was still with them.

When Jesus reached the official's house, and saw the flute-players and the disturbance the crowd was making,

And he went up and touched the bier, and the bearers stopped. And he said, "Young man, I tell you, wake up!"

Then he took it down from the cross and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

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

And he bought a linen sheet and took him down from the cross and wrapped him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the doorway of the tomb.

So they took Jesus' body, and wrapped it with the spices in bandages, in the Jewish way of preparing bodies for burial. There was a garden at the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. So because it was the Jewish Preparation day, and the tomb was close by, they put Jesus there.