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Joh_19:40-42. ʼΕν ὀθονίοις ] In bandages, so that He was enveloped therein, Plato, Legg. ix. p. 882 B; Pol. viii. p. 567 C; Jdt_16:8.
καθὼς ἔθος , κ . τ . λ .] The custom of the Egyptians (Herod. ii. 86 ff.), e.g., was different; amongst them the practice was to take out the brain and the intestines, or at least to deposit the body in nitre for seventy days.
ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ] in the district, in the place. On ἐτέθη , used of the interment of bodies, comp. Stallbaum, ad Plat. Rep. p. 469 B.
The garden with the new grave, which as yet had been used for no other burial (and thereby worthy of the Messiah, comp. Luk_23:53; Luk_19:30; Mar_11:2), must have belonged to a proprietor, who permitted, or himself put it to this use. According to Mat_27:60, it belonged to Joseph himself; but see in loc.
διὰ τὴν παρασκ .] On account of the haste, then, which the nearness of the commencing Sabbath enjoined. Retrospect of Joh_19:31.
On the relation of the Johannean account of the ἐνταφιασμός of Jesus to Mat_27:59, and parallel[258] passages, see on Matt.
[258] According to Krenkel, in Hilgenfeld, ZeitsChr. 1865, p. 438 ff., implying a denial of the apostolical origin of our Gospel, Nicodemus is said to be identical with Joseph of Arimathaea, and the ἐνταφιασμός in the present passage to be unhistorical.