Mark 15:46 - Exposition

And he bought a linen cloth ( σινδόνα ). This was a fine linen garment, or shroud, something like that in which the young man fled the night before. And taking him down ( καθελὼν αὐτὸν ). It appears from these words that Joseph himself, assisted probably by Nicodemus and others, actually took the body of our Lord down from the cross. wrapped the sindon round him, and laid him in his own new tomb, which had been hewn out of the rock. The word rendered "tomb" is μνημεῖον , as being intended to be a memorial of the departed. And he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. The door here means "the opening," or "entrance." Thus, while our Lord died with the wicked, he was with the rich in his death ( Isaiah 53:9 ).