Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comRobertson Word Pictures - Luke 23:53 - 23:53
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Took it down (kathelōn). Second aorist active participle of kathaireō as in Mar 15:46.
Wrapped (enetulixen), as in Mat 27:59 where Mar 15:46 has eneilēsen (wound), which see note. Joh 19:40 has “bound” (edēsan). See Matt. and Mark also for the linen cloth (sindoni).
Hewn in stone (laxeutōi). From laxeuō (las, a stone, xeō, to polish). In the lxx and here only in the N.T. Nowhere else so far as known. See the usual Greek verb latomeō in Mar 15:46; Mat 27:60.
Where never man had yet lain (hou ouk en oudeis oupō keimenos). Triple negative and periphrastic past perfect passive in sense (keimai), though periphrastic imperfect passive in form. Same item in Joh 19:40 who uses ēn tetheimenos (periphrastic past perfect passive in form).