[Holy Week]: #23; Jesus' Burial

   Now when evening had come, there came a
rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who
himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.
This man went to Pilate and asked for the body
of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to
be given to him. When Joseph had taken the
body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and
laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of
the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the
door of the tomb, and departed. And Mary
Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sit-
ting opposite the tomb.
   On the next day, which followed the Day of
Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees
gathered together to Pilate, saying, "Sir, we re-
member, while He was still alive, how that de-
ceiver said, 'After three days I will rise.' There-
fore command that the tomb be made secure
until the third day, lest His disciples come by
night and steal Him away, and say to the peo-
ple, 'He has risen from the dead.' So the last
deception will be worse than the first."
   Pilate said to them, "You have a guard; go
your way, make it as secure as you know how."
So they went and made the tomb secure, seal-
ing the stone and setting the guard.

Matthew 27:57-66