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Mat_27:59 “Jam initia honoris,” Bengel.
σινδόνι καθαρᾷ ] with pure (unstained linen) linen, the dative of instrument. Keeping in view the ordinary practice on such occasions, it must not be supposed that the reference here is to a dress (Kuinoel, Fritzsche), but (comp. Herod, ii. 86) to strips or bands (Joh_19:40), in which the body was swathed after being washed. Comp. Wetstein. Matthew makes no mention of spices (Joh_19:40), but neither does he exclude their use, for he may have meant us to understand that, in conformity with the usual practice, they would be put in, as matter of course, when the body was wrapped up (in opposition to Strauss, de Wette, Keim). Mar_16:1 and Luk_23:56 represent the putting in of the spices as something intended to be done after the burial. This, however, is in no way inconsistent with the statement of John, for there is no reason why the women may not have supplemented with a subsequent and more careful dressing of the body ( ἀλείψωσιν , Mar_16:1) what had been done imperfectly, because somewhat hurriedly, by Joseph and (see Joh_19:39) Nicodemus.