Matthew 27:52-66 ▼

52 and the sepulchers were opened, and many bodies of the saints that slept, arose.

53 And they came out of their sepulchers after his resurrection, and entered the holy city, and appeared to many.

54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and what was done, were greatly afraid, and said: Of a truth, this was the Son of God.

55 Many women that had followed Jesus from Galilee, and had ministered to him, were there, looking on from a distance.

56 Among these was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

57 When the evening had come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph; and he also was a disciple of Jesus.

58 This man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given.

59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in clean linen,

60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

61 And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.

62 On the morrow, which was the day after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

63 and said: Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will arise.

64 Therefore, command that the sepulcher be made safe till the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him away, and say to the people, He has risen from the dead; and the last error will be worse than the first.

65 Pilate said to them: You have a guard; go, make it as safe as you know how.

66 And they went and made the sepulcher safe, by placing a seal upon the stone, and setting the guard.