Heidelberg Catechism · 1563

Q41. Why was he buried?

His burial testified that He had really died.
Answer · Heidelberg Catechism

Scripture proofs

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    Isaiah 53:9

    And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

    John 19:38-42

    And after this Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. …

    Acts 13:29

    And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

    1 Corinthians 15:3-4

    For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.