Acts 5:6. The young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
It was usual in Palestine to bury a corpse on the day of death. The heat of the climate, doubtless, had much to do with this custom; besides which, so far as the Jews were concerned, their law made any one unclean for seven days who touched a dead body, or who was even in a house whore a dead body lay. See Numbers 19:11,14. Lazarus was probably buried on the day of his death. See John 11:17, 39. Sapphire, the wife of Ananias, was, like her husband, buried immediately after death. See Acts 5:10.