There are all sorts of things that you can buy today either “new” or “used”—homes, cars, appliances, clothes, etc. Have you ever thought about buying a “used” burial plot? Is there even such a thing? There are burial plots that are “new,” or at least “not-yet-used,” and there are burial plots that are “in use” presently. But those are the only options. Where are you going to find a burial plot that “was being used but is available now”?
Upon the death of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea “came and took the body of Jesus” (John 19:38). And then this statement is made, “Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid” (19:41). And, two verses later, that tomb was “empty.” It was no longer a “new tomb” and no longer “in use,” but it was now a “used” tomb! The one who inhabited it was no longer in need of a tomb!
Does your religion have a used tomb? Do you believe in that used tomb? Thank God that tomb is no longer “in use” (1 Cor. 15:20, 57)!