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." "By condemning Him, they fulfilled the voices of the prophets." Then again from the Scriptures. And observe also, as one moved by the Spirit Himself, he continually preaches the Passion, the Burial. "Having taken Him down from the tree." Observe, what a great point they make of this. He speaks of the manner of His death. Moreover they bring Pilate conspicuously forward, that the fact of the Passion may be proved by the mention of the tribunal by which he was condemned, but at the same time, for the greater impeachment of those His crucifiers, seeing they delivered Him up to an alien. And he does not say, They made a complaint against Him, but, "They desired, though having found no cause of death in Him, that He should be slain." "And when they had fulfilled all that was written of Him." Observe what a point he makes of showing that the whole thing was a Divine Dispensation. See, by saying what did they persuade men? By telling them that He was crucified? Why, what could be less persuasive than this? That He was buried - by them to whom it was promised that He should be salvation? that He who was buried forgives sins, yea, more than the Law has power to do?”

“And we declare unto you glad tidings,.... The whole of the Gospel, concerning the incarnation, obedience, sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ, and the benefits arising from thence, as peace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation; all which are good news and glad tidings to sensible sinners; and which are declared and published by the ministers of the Gospel, according to the commission given them, as here by Paul and Barnabas: how that the promise which was made unto the fathers; not barely and solely that which respects the resurrection of Christ, but the mission of him, the exhibition of him in human nature, his incarnation, his work and business he was to do, namely, to obtain salvation for his people; it chiefly regards the promise of his coming into the world to do the will of God, which promise was made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Judah, Gen 22:18.”

“they took him down . . . and laid him in a sepulchre--Though the burial of Christ was an act of honor and love to Him by the disciples to whom the body was committed, yet since His enemies looked after it and obtained a guard of soldiers to keep watch over it as the remains of their own victim, the apostle regards this as the last manifestation on their part of enmity to the Saviour, that they might see how God laughed all their precautions to scorn by "raising Him from the dead."”