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When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
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Joseph of Arimathaea, a member of the council of honorable estate, who also himself was looking for the kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
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Pilate marveled if he were already dead: and calling to him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for a while.
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When he learned it from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
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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.
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Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.