13 Bible Verses about Tombs

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Matthew 27:59-60

And Joseph receiving the body, wrapped it in clean linen; and laid it in his own new sepulchre, which he had hewn out in a rock: and rolling a vast stone against the door of the sepulchre, departed.

Mark 15:46

And having bought a wrapper of fine linen, and taken him down, he wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a sepulchre, which was hewn out of a rock; and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre.

Luke 23:53

And taking it down from the cross, he wrapped it in linen cloth, and laid it in a sepulchre hewn out of a rock, where none had ever yet lain.

John 11:38

Then Jesus again groaning in himself, cometh to the sepulchre. It was an excavation, and a stone lay upon it.

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his own new sepulchre, which he had hewn out in a rock: and rolling a vast stone against the door of the sepulchre, departed.

Matthew 27:64-66

Command therefore that the sepulchre be made perfectly secure until the third day, lest his disciples coming by night, steal him, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead, so the last delusion would be worse than the first. Then said Pilate unto them, Ye have a guard, go and make it as secure as ye think fit. So they went and made the sepulchre secure, putting a seal upon the stone, after placing the guard.

Matthew 28:2

And, lo! there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

Mark 16:3

And said among themselves, Who will roll away for us the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

Luke 24:2

And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.

John 19:41

And there was near the spot were he was crucified a garden and in the garden a new tomb, wherein no person had ever yet been laid.

Matthew 23:27-28

Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye resemble tombs whitewashed, which outwardly indeed appear specious, but within are full of dead men's bones, and all manner of impurity. And just so, ye without indeed appear to men righteous, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Luke 11:43-44

Wo unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the places of public concourse. Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves concealed, which men, while walking over them, see not.

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Mark 16:5

And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting at the right hand, clothed in a white robe; and they were greatly terrified.

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