The Tomb

Bible Love: A Scripture Podcast · May 14, 2026 · 15m

Today we talk about Jesus in the tomb in Mt 27.57-66; Mk 15.42-47; Lk 23.50-56; Jn 19.38-42.

The body has to go somewhere. Two men who kept their distance while Jesus was alive step forward when he is dead. Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the council that condemned him, goes to Pilate and asks for the body. Nicodemus, the man who first came to Jesus by night in John 3, arrives with spices. Both of them are staking something real on a dead man. Both of them do it anyway.

This week Alan and Mary Balfour sit with the burial narratives and with the day the church has historically done the least…