55. Many women had come with Jesus from Galilee to be of help to him, and they were there, looking on at a distance.
56. Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of James and John were some of these women.
57. That evening a rich disciple named Joseph from the town of Arimathea
58. went and asked for Jesus' body. Pilate gave orders for it to be given to Joseph,
59. who took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth.
60. Then Joseph put the body in his own tomb that had been cut into solid rock and had never been used. He rolled a big stone against the entrance to the tomb and went away.
61. All this time Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting across from the tomb.
62. On the next day, which was a Sabbath, the chief priests and the Pharisees went together to Pilate.
63. They said, “Sir, we remember what that liar said while he was still alive. He claimed that in three days he would come back from death.
64. So please order the tomb to be carefully guarded for three days. If you don't, his disciples may come and steal his body. They will tell the people that he has been raised to life, and this last lie will be worse than the first one.”
65. Pilate said to them, “All right, take some of your soldiers and guard the tomb as well as you know how.”
66. So they sealed it tight and placed soldiers there to guard it.