Luke 23:53

Modern

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

Traditional

And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

Literal

And having taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in a rock, in which no one yet was laid.

Latin

…et depositum involvit sindone, et posuit eum in monumento exciso, in quo nondum quisquam positus fuerat.

Greek

English

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

The new tomb had probably been purchased by Joseph as a family tomb.

Theme notes and profiles

Matthew 27:59–60
So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
Isaiah 53:9
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Mark 15:46
So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus, wrapped it in the cloth, and placed it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.