In the Gospel of Luke, which includes Jesus’ infancy
narrative, Jesus leaves this world, much like he enters it: wrapped loving in
cloth and lain in a place not meant for him.
Luke 2:7: “And she gave birth to her firstborn son and
wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no
place for them in the inn.”
Luke 23:52-53: “This man [Joseph of Arimathea] went to
Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down, wrapped it in a
linen cloth, and laid it in a rock-hewn tomb where no one had ever been laid.”
Wisdom 7:4-6 says, “In swaddling clothes and with constant
care I was nurtured. For no king has any different origin or birth; one is the
entry into life for all, and in one same way they leave it.”
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