best of the best: his body was wrapped in a clean linen cloth, and laid in Joseph’s own new tomb, thus completing the fulfilment of Isaiah 53:9. Some see in this linen shroud an allusion to the garments, in which priests were to be clothed. Joseph’s was a virgin sepulchre, wherein up to that time no one had been buried, so that, when Jesus rose, none could say that another came forth from the tomb instead of him. That rock-hewn cell in the garden sanctified every part of God’s acre where saints lie