This man went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.
Matthew 27:58 in context
Matthew 27:55–61
Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.
Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple, came.
This man went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.
Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth
and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock. Then he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.
Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
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