a clean place (Lev. 6:11). Have you ever wondered why three of the four Gospel writers bother to tell us that Christ was buried in an unused tomb, one that had never been touched by a dead body before? In Old Testament law, contact with a dead body made something unclean. We are being shown that Jesus’s body is being taken to “a clean place,” just as the remains of the burnt offering were: he is the true Levitical sacrifice. Even the burial of Christ points to the gospel, the completion of his atoning