Isaiah 53- Jesus Was Buried in the Garden (TMF:509)

Thursday, October 06, 2016
Peace to Live By: Isaiah 53- Jesus Was Buried in the Garden (TMF:509) - Daniel Litton
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       The next part of the passage states, “And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt”” (Isaiah 53:9, 10a, ESV). We know from Matthew, Mark, & Luke’s Gospels that Joseph of Arimathea was the one who cared for Jesus body after he died, and he put it in his own tomb. Now this man from Arimathea named Joseph was a rich man, and we really don’t know if he had purchased the tomb literally for himself, or for someone else in his family. It was probably for himself, and he decides to use his tomb for Jesus. But as Isaiah tells us, and as Matthew, Luke, and John confirm in their Gospels, the tomb in which Jesus’ body was laid was a ‘new’ tomb. But Isaiah tells us that apparently in the garden near the cross were buried other wicked men, and a rich man. The Gospels do not confirm this, but we know it’s true since God has said it in his Word.