Quotes about Linen
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
- Hosea 2:5
So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
- Matthew 27:59
One young man who had been following Jesus was wearing a linen cloth around his body. They caught hold of him,
- Mark 14:51
So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus, wrapped it in the cloth, and placed it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.
- Mark 15:46
Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.
- Luke 23:53
Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. And after bending down and seeing only the linen cloths, he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
- Luke 24:12
So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.
- John 19:40
Simon Peter arrived just after him. He entered the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there.
- John 20:6
The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths.
- John 20:7
And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests.
- Revelation 15:6
saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!
- Revelation 18:16
On the great Day of Atonement when Aaron took the blood into the Holy of Holies, he laid aside all of his garments of beauty and glory and wore only the simple linen garments that the other priests wore.
- J. Vernon McGee