This Week at Hope – He Was Buried According to the Scriptures

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Prayer will be at the Burke home.

Our scripture study for this week is Matthew 27:57-66, where the scene changes from the CROSS to the GRAVE. The focus of this entire section is the grave itself, where the personalities and prophesies are displayed. All of the gospel writers give extensive attention to the burial of Jesus and how it was that He was laid in a grave. We often minimize the importance of the burial of Jesus even though His burial is explained in a total of 26 verses in the four Gospels. Matthew devotes a total of ten verses to this important aspect of the gospel message.

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