35. Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”
36. One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”
37. Yeshua cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
38. The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
39. When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
40. There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Miriam Magdalene, and Miriam the mother of Jacob the less and of Yosi, and Shalom;
41. who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
42. When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
43. Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Yeshua’s body.
44. Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
45. When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
46. He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
47. Miriam Magdalene and Miriam, the mother of Yosi, saw where he was laid.