^{50 Ref} Now there was a man named Joseph, a man of authority and a good and upright man

^{51 Ref} (He had not given his approval to their decision or their acts), of Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God:

^{52 Ref} This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.

^{53 Ref} And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.

^{54 Ref} Now it was the day of making ready and the Sabbath was coming on.

^{55 Ref} And the women who had come with him from Galilee went after him and saw the place and how his body had been put to rest;

^{56 Ref} And they went back and got ready spices and perfumes; and on the Sabbath they took their rest, in agreement with the law.