John 20:15

20:15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” Because she ¹  thought he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.”

John 20:2

20:2 So she went running ²  to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

John 1:30

1:30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, ³  because he existed before me.’

Isaiah 22:16

22:16 ‘What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? ⁴ 

Why ⁵  do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here?

He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place,

he carves out his tomb on a cliff.

Matthew 27:60

27:60 and placed it ⁶  in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. ⁷  Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance ⁸  of the tomb and went away.

Matthew 27:64-66

27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body ⁹  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.” 27:65 Pilate said to them, “Take ¹⁰  a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.” 27:66 So ¹¹  they went with the soldiers ¹²  of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.

Luke 23:53

23:53 Then ¹³  he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, ¹⁴  and placed it ¹⁵  in a tomb cut out of the rock, ¹⁶  where no one had yet been buried. ¹⁷ 

¹ tn Grk “that one” (referring to Mary Magdalene).

² tn Grk “So she ran and came.”

³ tn Or “has a higher rank than I.”

⁴ tn Heb “What to you here? And who to you here?” The point of the second question is not entirely clear. The interpretation reflected in the translation is based on the following context, which suggests that Shebna has no right to think of himself so highly and arrange such an extravagant burial place for himself.

⁵ tn Heb “that you chisel out.”

⁶ tc ‡ αὐτό (auto, “it”) is found after ἔθηκεν (eqhken, “placed”) in the majority of witnesses, including many important ones, though it seems to be motivated by a need for clarification and cannot therefore easily explain the rise of the shorter reading (which is read by א L Θ Ë¹³ 33 892 pc). Regardless of which reading is original (though with a slight preference for the shorter reading), English style requires the pronoun. NA²⁷ includes αὐτό here, no doubt due to the overwhelming external attestation.

⁷ tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.25).

⁸ tn Or “to the door,” “against the door.”

⁹ tn Grk “him.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “You have a guard.”

¹¹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of Pilate’s order.

¹² tn Grk “with the guard.” The words “soldiers of the” have been supplied in the translation to prevent “guard” from being misunderstood as a single individual.

¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

¹⁴ tn The term σινδών (sindwn) can refer to a linen cloth used either for clothing or for burial.

¹⁵ tn In the Greek text this pronoun (αὐτόν, auton) is masculine, while the previous one (αὐτό, auto) is neuter, referring to the body.

¹⁶ tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.26).

¹⁷ tc Codex Bezae (D), with some support from 070, one Itala ms, and the Sahidic version, adds the words, “And after he [Jesus] was laid [in the tomb], he [Joseph of Arimathea] put a stone over the tomb which scarcely twenty men could roll.” Although this addition is certainly not part of the original text of Luke, it does show how interested the early scribes were in the details of the burial and may even reflect a very primitive tradition. Matt 27:60 and Mark 15:46 record the positioning of a large stone at the door of the tomb.