NEW TESTAMENT

John 20:5

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Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he didn’t enter in.

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Verse 5. He saw the linen cloths lying. Saint John Chrysostom takes notice, that Christ’s body being buried with myrrh, the linen would stick as fast to the body as pitch, so that it would be impossible to steal, or take away the body without the linen cloths. Witham.

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