| 57 | When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathe'a, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. |
| 58 | He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. |
| 59 | And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud, |
| 60 | and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed. |
| 61 | Mary Mag'dalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the sepulchre. |
| 62 | Next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate |
| 63 | and said, "Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, `After three days I will rise again.' |
| 64 | Therefore order the sepulchre to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away, and tell the people, `He has risen from the dead,' and the last fraud will be worse than the first." |
| 65 | Pilate said to them, "You have a guard of soldiers; go, make it as secure as you can." |
| 66 | So they went and made the sepulchre secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard. |