Luke 23:50-54
Joseph from Arimathea buries Jesus body
50 A man called Joseph was also there. He belonged to the group of important Jewish leaders. He was a good man that wanted to do right things. 51 He was from the town of Arimathea in Judea. He had not agreed with the other leaders that Jesus should die. He was waiting for the kingdom of God to come.
52 So Joseph went to see Pilate. He asked Pilate for the dead body of Jesus. Pilate agreed to this. 53 Joseph then went to the place where Jesus had died. He took the dead body down from the cross. He put a piece of linen cloth around the body. Then he put the body into a grave hole in the rock. It was a place where nobody had ever put a dead body before.
23:53At that time, people buried dead bodies in a hole in a rock, like a small cave. They closed the front of the hole with a big stone.
54 This all happened on the day before the Jewish day of rest. It was nearly time for the Jewish day of rest to begin.
23:54For the Jews, the end of a day was when the sun went down in the evening. The day of rest started in the evening of our Friday.
