⁷ Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,

³¹ For He standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save from those judging his soul.

² And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary: `Jehovah doth push against thee, O Adversary, Yea, push against thee doth Jehovah, Who is fixing on Jerusalem, Is not this a brand delivered from fire?'

¹⁰ And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for a good work she wrought for me;

¹² for she having put this ointment on my body -- for my burial she did `it'.

⁵⁷ And evening having come, there came a rich man, from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled to Jesus,

⁵⁸ he having gone near to Pilate, asked for himself the body of Jesus; then Pilate commanded the body to be given back.

⁵⁹ And having taken the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen,

⁶⁰ and laid it in his new tomb, that he hewed in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he went away;

⁶ And Jesus said, `Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;

⁴² And now evening having come, seeing it was the preparation, that is, the fore-sabbath,

⁴³ Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable counsellor, who also himself was waiting for the reign of God, came, boldly entered in unto Pilate, and asked the body of Jesus.

⁴⁴ And Pilate wondered if he were already dead, and having called near the centurion, did question him if he were long dead,

⁴⁵ and having known `it' from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

⁴⁶ And he, having brought fine linen, and having taken him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre,

⁴⁷ and Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of Joses, were beholding where he is laid.

⁵⁰ And lo, a man, by name Joseph, being a counsellor, a man good and righteous,

³⁸ And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea -- being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews -- ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away the body of Jesus,

³⁹ and Nicodemus also came -- who came unto Jesus by night at the first -- bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, as it were, a hundred pounds.

⁴⁰ They took, therefore, the body of Jesus, and bound it with linen clothes with the spices, according as it was the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial;

⁴¹ and there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid;

⁴² there, therefore, because of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was nigh, they laid Jesus.