John 19

Jesus’s Burial

38 After  * 19:38–42 Mt 27:57–60; Mk 15:42–46; Lk 23:50–54 this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus — but secretly because of his fear of the Jews — asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’s body.  * 19:38 Lk 12:4; Jn 2:21 Pilate gave him permission; so he came and took his body away.