59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against
the entrance of the tomb and went away.
They were standing there at
the entrance of the tomb, unsmiling, stolid — the Copt swarthy, with a round black hat, and the Jacobite looking emaciated, tubercular.
It is as if a stone has been rolled away from
the entrance of our tomb.
«They never wanted him crucified of course but what a relief it must have been when the stone was rolled across
the entrance of the tomb, sealing everything shut so they could go back to being fishermen which they knew how to do rather than fishers of men which they didn't.»
«[The women] had been saying to one another, «Who will roll away the stone for us from
the entrance of the tomb?»
He had guards stand watch at
the entrance of the tomb.
The entrance motif was also used by British artists such as Alan Davie (1920 - 2014), in the dense grid - like structure Entrance to a Paradise (1949) and Entrance for a Red Temple No 1 (1960), and the abstract artist Robyn Denny (1930 - 2014), who used
the entrance of a tomb or room to indicate transition to another dimension.