Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. — Comp. John 18:1. St. John’s account makes the choice of the sepulchre depend on its nearness to the place of crucifixion; the account in the earlier Gospels makes it depend on the fact that the sepulchre belonged to Joseph. The one account implies the other; and the burial, under the circumstances, required both that the sepulchre should be at hand, and that its owner should be willing that the body should be placed in it.
A new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. — An emphatic combination of the two statements made in Matthew 27:60 and Luke 23:53.