Mark:15:42-47

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* It was now late in the afternoon and , since it was Preparation Day , that is the day before the Sabbath , * Joseph of Arimathaea , a councilor of high standing , who himself was looking for the kingdom of God , took courage to go in to Pilate and ask for the body of Jesus . * Pilate wondered whether he was already dead , but he called in the Centurion and asked him whether Jesus had been long dead . * Upon learning this from the Centurion , he granted the body to Joseph . * Joseph bought a linen sheet and took him down and swathed him in it and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock . He then rolled a stone against the door of the tomb . * Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where Jesus was laid .

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