27:60 Laid it in his own new tomb. A rock-hewn sepulcher, cut horizontally into the cliff.
Rolled a great stone to the door. The usual method of closing the rock-hewn tombs. Thus Christ was buried, according to the Scriptures (1Co 15:4) in a rich man's tomb, was with the rich in his death (Isa 53:9).
27:57-61 In the burial of Christ was nothing of pomp or solemnity. As Christ had not a house of his own, wherein to lay his head, while he lived, so he had not a grave of his own, wherein to lay his body, when he was dead. Our Lord Jesus, who had no sin of his own, had no grave of his own. The Jews designed that he should have made his grave with the wicked, should have been buried with the thieves with whom he was crucified, but God overruled it, so that he should make it with the rich in his death, Isa 53:9. And although to the eye of man the beholding a funeral may cause terror, yet if we remember how Christ by his burial has changed the nature of the grave to believers, it should make us rejoice. And we are ever to imitate Christ's burial in being continually occupied in the spiritual burial of our sins.
