Matthew 27:57-66 ▼

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;

61 now Mary the Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the grave.

62 And on the next day that is after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

63 saying, “Lord, we have remembered that this deceiver said while yet living, After three days I rise;

64 command, then, the grave to be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples, having come by night, may steal Him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit will be worse than the first.”

65 And Pilate said to them, “You have a guard, go away, make [it] secure—as you have known”;

66 and they, having gone, made the grave secure, having sealed the stone, together with the guard.