⁴² And now evening having come, seeing it was the preparation, that is, the fore-sabbath,

⁴³ Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable counsellor, who also himself was waiting for the reign of God, came, boldly entered in unto Pilate, and asked the body of Jesus.

⁴⁴ And Pilate wondered if he were already dead, and having called near the centurion, did question him if he were long dead,

⁴⁵ and having known `it' from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

⁴⁶ And he, having brought fine linen, and having taken him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre,

⁴⁷ and Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of Joses, were beholding where he is laid.