47. The centurion who witnessed what had happened glorified God and said, “This man was innocent beyond doubt.”
48. When all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts;
49. but all his acquaintances stood at a distance, including the women who had followed him from Galilee and saw these events.
50. Now there was a virtuous and righteous man named Joseph who, though he was a member of the council,
51. had not consented to their plan of action. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea and was awaiting the kingdom of God.
52. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
53. After he had taken the body down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid him in a rock-hewn tomb in which no one had yet been buried.
54. It was the day of preparation, and the sabbath was about to begin.
55. The women who had come from Galilee with him followed behind, and when they had seen the tomb and the way in which his body was laid in it,