^{42 Ref} When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

^{43 Ref} Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.

^{44 Ref} Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.

^{45 Ref} When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

^{46 Ref} He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

^{47 Ref} Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.