Verse 41
John is the only evangelist who recorded that there was a garden and an unused new tomb near the place of Jesus’ crucifixion. The tomb was probably an artificial cave in the limestone, several examples of which are observable in Palestine today. Matthew noted that the garden and its tomb belonged to Joseph (Matthew 27:60). John’s mention of the garden prepares for his reference later to a gardener (John 20:15). His reference to the tomb being new and unused prepares for the Resurrection in which no other corpse was in the tomb (John 20:8; John 20:12).
"The fall of the first Adam took place in a garden; and it was in a garden that the second Adam redeemed mankind from the consequences of Adam’s transgression." [Note: Tasker, p. 219.]
The site was probably not the "Garden Tomb" near Gordon’s Calvary since Jesus’ tomb would have been closer to the crucifixion site that the Church of the Holy Sepulcher now covers. Jesus’ tomb could have been quite similar in appearance to this "Garden Tomb," however.
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