Mark 15:46

MARK—NOTE ON Mark 15:46 Joseph wrapped the body of Jesus in a linen shroud and placed it in a tomb... cut out of the rock. Rock-cut tombs were expensive since they required extensive excavation. This tomb would most probably have been Joseph of Arimathea’s family tomb. After a body had decayed, its bones were removed and piled elsewhere in the tomb or reburied in an ossuary, a specially designed box which held one or two bodies. The two main locations where it is thought that Jesus may have been buried are the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Garden Tomb. Both of these were rock-cut tombs with rolling stone doors. Both would have been outside the first-century city walls. Early church tradition strongly favors the Holy Sepulchre site. The area around the Garden Tomb consists largely of tombs from OT times.