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When the evening was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus.
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He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
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And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
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And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed.
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And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulcher.
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Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,
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Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
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Command therefore that the sepulcher be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error will be worse than the first.
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Pilate said to them, Ye have a watch: go, make [it] as secure as ye can.
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So they went, and having sealed the stone, made the sepulcher secure with a watch.