7 Bible Verses about Funerals
Most Relevant Verses
At Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha, that is in Greek, Dorcas: this woman was very active in all the offices of benevolence and charity. she happen'd to fall sick at that time, and died: after they had bath'd her body, they laid her out in an upper chamber. as Lydda was near Joppa, and the disciples having heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him to desire he would come to them without delay.read more.
Peter immediately went with them, and when he was come, they conducted him to the upper chamber: and all the widows advanc'd to him weeping, and shew'd the robes and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.
When Jesus came to the ruler's house, he found a set of flute-players and a crowd of people making a lamentable cry,
then advancing, he touch'd the bier, and the bearers standing still, he said, young man, arise, I command you.
and he took it down, and wrapp'd it in linnen, and laid it in a sepulchre, hewn out of a rock, wherein nobody had ever yet been deposited.
who taking down the body, wrapped it in a fine linnen cloth, which he had bought, and laid it in a sepulchre, which was hewn out of a rock, and roll'd a stone for a door to the sepulchre: and Mary Magdalene,
they took therefore the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, according to the manner of burial among the Jews. now near the place where he was crucified, there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which no body had ever yet been laid. as this sepulchre was nigh at hand, they laid Jesus therein, because the time of the preparation of the Jews was expiring.
