The Burial of Jesus

At evening Joseph of Arimathea, a rich disciple, asks Pilate for Jesus’s body, receives it, wraps it in clean linen, and places it in his own new tomb. He rolls a great stone across the entrance and leaves, while Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sit opposite the tomb.

W⁵⁷hen it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus. ⁵⁸He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. ⁵⁹So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, ⁶⁰and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away. ⁶¹Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.