Funeral

Funerals were times for expressing grief

Genesis 50:10; Acts 9:36–39

Hired musicians sometimes played a funeral dirge

Matthew 9:23

The funeral bier

2 Samuel 3:31–32; Luke 7:14

Funeral fires lit in honour of worthy kings of Judah

2 Chronicles 16:14, 2 Chronicles 21:19; Jeremiah 34:5

Funerals often concluded with burial in a family tomb

Genesis 49:29–31

Jesus Christ had no funeral ceremony

Luke 23:53 parallels Matthew 27:59, Mark 15:46, John 19:40–42