Matthew 27:55-65

55 ¹Many women were there looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee while ²ministering to Him.

56 Among them was ³Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and ⁴the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

Jesus Is Buried

57 ⁵When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.

58 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled ⁶a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.

61 And ⁷Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the grave.

62 Now on the next day, the day after ⁸the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with Pilate,

63 and said, "Sir, we remember that when He was still alive that deceiver said, '⁹After three days I am to rise again.'

64 "Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

65 Pilate said to them, "You have a ¹⁰guard; go, make it as secure as you know how."

Cross References

• 1. Mark 15:40; Luke 23:49; John 19:25
• 2. Mark 15:41; Luke 8:2, 3
• 3. Matthew 28:1; Mark 15:40, 47; Mark 16:9; Luke 8:2; John 19:25; John 20:1, 18
• 4. Matthew 20:20
• 5. Matthew 27:57-61: {Mark 15:42-47; Luke 23:50-56; John 19:38-42}
• 6. Matthew 27:66; Matthew 28:2; Mark 16:4
• 7. Matthew 27:56; Matthew 28:1
• 8. Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:14, 31, 42
• 9. Matthew 16:21; Matthew 17:23; Matthew 20:19; Mark 8:31; Mark 9:31; Mark 10:34; Luke 9:22; Luke 18:31-33
• 10. Matthew 27:66; Matthew 28:11

Footnotes

• [a] Or "caring for Him"
• [b] Lit "which is after"