Cloths

So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”

Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. And after bending down and seeing only the linen cloths, he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.

He bent down and looked in at the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.

Simon Peter arrived just after him. He entered the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there.

The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths.