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When the Roman officer and those with him who were keeping watch over Yeshua saw the earthquake and what was happening, they were awestruck and said, "He really was a son of God."
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There were many women there, looking on from a distance; they had followed Yeshua from the Galil, helping him.
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Among them were Miryam from Magdala, Miryam the mother of Ya`akov and Yosef, and the mother of Zavdai's sons.
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Towards evening, there came a wealthy man from Ramatayim named Yosef, who was himself a talmid of Yeshua.
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He approached Pilate and asked for Yeshua's body, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
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Yosef took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen sheet,
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and laid it in his own tomb, which he had recently had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone in front of the entrance to the tomb, he went away.
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Miryam of Magdala and the other Miryam stayed there, sitting opposite the grave.
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Next day, after the preparation, the head cohanim and the P'rushim went together to Pilate
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and said, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was still alive, `After three days I will be raised.'
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Therefore, order that the grave be made secure till the third day; otherwise the talmidim may come, steal him away and say to the people, `He was raised from the dead'; and the last deception will be worse than the first."