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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="MAT.27.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="MAT.27.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus&#8217; body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="MAT.27.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, </span></span><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="MAT.27.60"><span class="label">60</span><span class="content">and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. </span></span><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="MAT.27.61"><span class="label">61</span><span class="content">Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Guard at the Tomb</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="MAT.27.61"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="MAT.27.62"><span class="label">62</span><span class="content">The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. </span></span><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="MAT.27.63"><span class="label">63</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sir,&#8221; they said, &#8220;we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, &#8216;After three days I will rise again.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="MAT.27.64"><span class="label">64</span><span class="content">So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="MAT.27.64"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="MAT.27.65"><span class="label">65</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take a guard,&#8221; Pilate answered. &#8220;Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="MAT.27.66"><span class="label">66</span><span class="content">So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.15.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MRK.15.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus&#8217; body. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MRK.15.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MRK.15.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MRK.15.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MRK.15.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LUK.23.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and upright man, </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.23.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea, and he himself was waiting for the kingdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LUK.23.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus&#8217; body. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LUK.23.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LUK.23.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LUK.23.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LUK.23.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LUK.23.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.19.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate&#8217;s permission, he came and took the body away. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.19.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:39 </span><span class="ft">Or about 34 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.19.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Taking Jesus&#8217; body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.19.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.19.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.</span></span></div>
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