Burial in a Garden

We recall the place where Christ was buried: in a garden near the place where He was crucified. Just as Christ desired to begin His suffering in the garden of Mt. Olive, so now He wanted to end it by being buried in a garden, thereby to signify that with His suffering He intended to restore again what the first man had lost in the garden of Paradise. Also, since Christ has made our graves into a soft bed of rest by His burial, He also wanted to be buried in a garden to indicate thereby that not only He (as the fruitful Tree of Life) would soon blossom forth in this garden, but rather that also we, through His power, would sprout up like the grass in a garden.

Johann Gerhard
An Explanation of the History of the Suffering and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ
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