Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Bengel Commentary - Matthew 27:59 - 27:59
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Mat 27:59. Σινδόνι, a very fine linen or muslin cloth) Such as had not hitherto been worn by our Lord. The beginnings of honour[1217] already appear. Joseph is called in Mar 15:43, ΕὐΣΧΉΜΩΝ ΒΟΥΛΕΥΤῊς, an honourable senator) It was not allowable to wrap the dead in anything more costly.
[1217] Cf. 1Co 15:4.-E. B.