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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre - The choice of this tomb was, on their part, dictated by the double circumstance that it was so near at hand, and by its belonging to a friend of the Lord; and as there was need of haste, even they would be struck with the providence which thus supplied it. “There laid they Jesus therefore, because of the Jew’s preparation day, for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.” But there was one recommendation of it which probably would not strike them; but God had it in view. Not its being “hewn out of a rock” (Mar 15:46), accessible only at the entrance, which doubtless would impress them with its security and suitableness. But it was “a new sepulchre” (Joh 19:41), “wherein never man before was laid” (Luk 23:53): and Matthew (Mat 27:60) says that Joseph laid Him “in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock” - doubtless for his own use, though the Lord had higher use for it. Thus as He rode into Jerusalem on an ass “whereon never man before had sat” (Mar 11:2), so now He shall lie in a tomb wherein never man before had lain, that from these specimens it may be seen that in all things He was “SEPARATE FROM SINNERS” (Heb 7:26).