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Matthew 27:58-63 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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.

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