Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the council, who until now secretly had
been a disciple of Jesus, got permission from Pilate to take the body
down from the cross and bury it. And Nicodemus, the same who came to
Jesus by night, was with him, and brought a hundred pounds of myrrh and
aloes. They anointed the body of Jesus and laid it in a sepulchre, hewn
in stone, near by Golgotha, and rolled a great stone before the opening
of the tomb.
The chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate and said: Sir, this
Deceiver said, while He was yet alive: After three days I rise again.
Command therefore that a guard be placed at the sepulchre, that His
disciples may not come and steal the body away and say: He is risen.
They received a guard, which they placed at the tomb, and they sealed
the stone. (All the Gospels.)