"As evening approached, there came rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean, linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting opposite the tomb." (Mathew 27:57-61).
Jesus was born in a borrowed manger ... now buried in a borrowed tomb..
A few years later the Christians at Philippi had a creed they chanted together (and probably sang) that included these words:
"Who, being in nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used for His own advantage; rather, He made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness, and be found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to death -- even death on a cross..." That's our Savior! (Read the whole creed/hymn in Philippians 2)
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