Matthew 27:57-61 - Jesus Is Buried

⁵⁷ When evening had fallen, there came a rich man belonging to Ramah, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. ⁵⁸ He went to see Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus; upon which Pilate ordered it to be given him. ⁵⁹ So Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen sheet, ⁶⁰ And laid it in his newly-made tomb which he had cut in the rock; and, before he left, he rolled a great stone against the entrance of the tomb. ⁶¹ Mary of Magdala and the other Mary remained behind, sitting in front of the grave.

⁴² The evening had already fallen, when, as it was the Preparation Day--the day before the Sabbath-- ⁴³ Joseph from Ramah, a Councillor of good position, who was himself living in expectation of the Kingdom of God, came and ventured to go in to see Pilate, and to ask for the body of Jesus. ⁴⁴ But Pilate was surprised to hear that he had already died. So he sent for the Officer, and asked if he were already dead; ⁴⁵ And, on learning from the Officer that it was so, he gave the corpse to Joseph. ⁴⁶ Joseph, having bought a linen sheet, took Jesus down, and wound the sheet round him, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock; and then rolled a stone up against the entrance of the tomb. ⁴⁷ Mary of Magdala and Mary, the mother of Joseph, were watching to see where he was laid.

⁵⁰ Now there was a man of the name of Joseph, who was a member of the Council, and who bore a good and upright character. ⁵¹ (This man had not assented to the decision and action of the Council.) He belonged to Ramah, a town in Judea, and lived in expectation of the Kingdom of God. ⁵² He now went to see Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus; ⁵³ And, when he had taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen sheet, and laid him in a tomb cut out of stone, in which no one had yet been buried. ⁵⁴ It was the Preparation Day, and just before the Sabbath began. ⁵⁵ The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how the body of Jesus was laid, ⁵⁶ And then went home, and prepared spices and perfumes. During the Sabbath they rested, as directed by the commandment

³⁸ After this, Joseph of Ramah, a disciple of Jesus--but a secret one, owing to his fear of the Jews--begged Pilate's permission to remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him leave; so Joseph went and removed the body. ³⁹ Nicodemus, too--the man who had formerly visited Jesus by night--came with a roll of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds. ⁴⁰ They took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial. ⁴¹ At the place where Jesus had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a newly-made tomb in which no one had ever been laid. ⁴² And so, because of its being the Preparation Day, and as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.