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the tombs opened; and many of God's people who were asleep in death awoke.
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And coming out of their tombs after Christ's resurrection they entered the holy city and showed themselves to many.
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As for the Captain and the soldiers who were with Him keeping guard over Jesus, when they witnessed the earthquake and the other occurrences they were filled with terror, and exclaimed, "Assuredly he was God's Son."
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And there were a number of women there looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministering to His necessities;
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among them being Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zabdi.
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Towards sunset there came a wealthy inhabitant of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself also had become a disciple of Jesus.
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He went to Pilate and begged to have the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
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So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean sheet of fine linen.
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He then laid it in his own new tomb which he had hewn in the solid rock, and after rolling a great stone against the door of the tomb he went home.
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Mary of Magdala and the other Mary were both present there, sitting opposite to the sepulchre.
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On the next day, the day after the Preparation, the High Priests and the Pharisees came in a body to Pilate.