44. But Pilate wondered whether He was dead so soon, and, having called the centurion, he asked him whether [Jesus] was already dead.
45. And when he learned from the centurion [that He was indeed dead], he gave the body to Joseph.
46. And Joseph bought a [fine] linen cloth [for swathing dead bodies], and, taking Him down from the cross, he rolled Him up in the [fine] linen cloth and placed Him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock. Then he rolled a [very large] stone against the door of the tomb. [Isa. 53:9; Matt. 16:4.]
47. And Mary Magdalene and Mary [the mother] of Joses were [attentively] observing where He was laid.