Focused Passage
Jesus Condemned, Crucified, Dead, Buried, and Guarded
Matthew 27 moves from Jesus handed over to Pilate, to Judas’s remorse over innocent blood, to Pilate’s trial and the release of Barabbas, to the soldiers’ mock coronation, to the crucifixion at Golgotha, to the public mockery of the crucified King, to darkness and Jesus’ cry of forsakenness, to his death and cosmic-temple signs, to Gentile confession and women’s witness, to burial by Joseph, and finally to the sealed and guarded tomb.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
57 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus.
58 He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.
59 So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
60 and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.
61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
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