57. When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.
58. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.
59. And Joseph took the body and rolled it up in a clean linen cloth used for swathing dead bodies
60. And laid it in his own fresh (undefiled) tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a big boulder over the door of the tomb and went away.
61. And Mary of Magdala and the other Mary kept sitting there opposite the tomb.
62. The next day, that is, the day after the day of Preparation [for the Sabbath], the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate
63. And said, Sir, we have just remembered how that vagabond Imposter said while He was still alive, After three days I will rise again.
64. Therefore give an order to have the tomb made secure and safeguarded until the third day, for fear that His disciples will come and steal Him away and tell the people that He has risen from the dead, and the last deception and fraud will be worse than the first.
65. Pilate said to them, You have a guard [of soldiers; take them and] go, make it as secure as you can.
66. So they went off and made the tomb secure by sealing the boulder, a guard of soldiers being with them and remaining to watch.