Matthew 27:57-61 - Jesus Is Buried

⁵⁷ Now when evening came, a rich man from Arimathaea, called Joseph, who had become a disciple of Jesus, ⁵⁸ went to Pilate and asked him for the body of Jesus. Pilate then ordered the body to be handed over to him. ⁵⁹ So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in clean linen, ⁶⁰ and put it in his new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; then, after rolling a large boulder to the opening of the tomb, he went away. ⁶¹ Mary of Magdala and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.

⁴² By this time it was evening, and as it was the day of Preparation (that is, the day before the sabbath) ⁴³ Joseph of Arimathaea, a councillor of good position who himself was on the outlook for the Reign of God, ventured to go to Pilate and ask for the body of Jesus. ⁴⁴ Pilate was surprised that he was dead already; he summoned the captain and asked if he had been dead some time, ⁴⁵ and on ascertaining this from the captain he bestowed the corpse on Joseph. ⁴⁶ He, after buying a linen sheet, took him down and swathed him in the linen, laying him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock and rolling a boulder up against the opening of the tomb. ⁴⁷ Now Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses noted where he was laid.

⁵⁰ Now there was a man called Joseph, a member of council but a good and just man ⁵¹ who had not voted for their plan of action; he belonged to Arimathaea, a Jewish town, and he was on the outlook for the Reign of God. ⁵² This Joseph went to Pilate and asked him for the body of Jesus. ⁵³ He then took it down, wrapped it in linen, and put it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried. ⁵⁴ It was the day of the Preparation and the sabbath was just dawning. ⁵⁵ So the women who had accompanied him from Galilee and who had followed Joseph, noted the tomb and the position of the body; ⁵⁶ then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes.

³⁸ After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, a disciple of Jesus but a secret disciple ??for fear of the Jews ??asked Pilate for permission to remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate allowed him. So he went and removed the body, ³⁹ accompanied by Nicodemus (he who had first come to Jesus by night) who brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds of it; ⁴⁰ they took and wrapped up the body of Jesus in the spices and in bandages, according to the Jewish custom of burial. ⁴¹ Now at the spot where he had been crucified there was an orchard, and in the orchard a new tomb where no one had yet been laid; ⁴² so they put Jesus there, since it was the Jewish day of Preparation, seeing that the tomb was close by.