50 Then, look, there was a man named Yosef on the local council. (He was a good man and godly, 51 and hadn’t agreed with what the council had decided and done. He was from the Jewish city of Arimathea and was waiting for God’s kingdom to come.) 52 He went in to see Pilate and requested Yeshua’s body, 53 then he took it down from the stake and wrapped it in some linen cloth, and put the body into a tomb hollowed into the rock—a new tomb that had never been used. 54 It was now the day of preparation and the Rest Day was about to begin.

55 The women who’d come from Galilee followed Yosef and his men and saw the tomb and how the body was placed inside, 56 [ref]then they returned to the house and prepared spices and ointments.

38 After all of this, Yosef from Arimathea went to Pilate. (Yosef was a follower of Yeshua, but secretly because he was afraid of what the Jewish leaders might do.) He asked Pilate for permission to remove Yeshua’s body, and it was granted to him so they went and got his body. 39 [ref]Nicodemus (the one who had first visited Yeshua at night) also came, bringing around 30kg of burial spices. 40 So they took Yeshua’s body and wrapped it around with linen strips with the spices as per the Jewish burial customs. 41 There was a garden out at the place where Yeshua had been executed, and in the garden there was a new tomb that hadn’t been used yet. 42 So because it was the preparation day and because the tomb was nearby, they laid his body in there.

42 As evening came, it was now the Preparation Day, i.e., the day before the Rest Day. 43 Yosef (who’d come from the city of Arimathea and one who was waiting for the coming of God’s kingdom), a prominent council member, steeled himself up and went in to see the governor to get permission to transfer Yeshua’s body. 44 Governor Pilate didn’t think he’d be dead yet, so he called an army commander to find out if Yeshua had indeed died. 45 As soon as he found out, he gave Yosef permission. 46 So Yosef and his companions went and bought some linen burial cloth and then, removing Yeshua’s body from the pole, wrapped it in the cloth and placed it in a burial chamber that had been chiselled into a rockface. Then they rolled a rock across the opening. 47 Others were watching and noted where the body had been laid, including Maria from Magdala and Maria the mother of Joses.

57 As it moved into evening, a wealthy man named Yosef from Arimathea came—he’d also been one of Yeshua’s trainees. 58 He went to Pilate and requested Yeshua’s body, and Pilate commanded the soldiers to release it. 59 Yosef took the body and wrapped it in clean, linen cloth 60 and put it in his own tomb which had been newly carved into the rock. They he rolled a big stone into the door of the tomb and left it. 61 Maria from Magdala and the other Maria sat there in front of the tomb.