All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.
Behold, there was a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom.
This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
He took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.