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36 The Bible already said how it would happen. It says:

    ‘Nobody will break any of his bones.’[a]
37 In another place, the Bible says:
    ‘People will push a spear into that man's body,
    and then they will look at him.’[b]
And that is how it really happened.

Joseph buries Jesus

38 There was a man called Joseph who came from the town of Arimathea. He was one of Jesus' disciples, but he was afraid of the Jewish leaders. So he had not told people that he was a disciple of Jesus. Joseph went to Pilate and asked if he could take Jesus' dead body away. Pilate agreed. So Joseph went there and he took the body away.

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