⁴⁸ And when the crowd that came to see the crucifixion saw that Jesus was dead, they went home in deep sorrow. ⁴⁹ Meanwhile, Jesus’ friends, including the women who had followed him down from Galilee, stood in the distance watching.

^50-52 Then a man named Joseph, a member of the Jewish Supreme Court, from the city of Arimathea in Judea, went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. He was a godly man who had been expecting the Messiah’s coming and had not agreed with the decision and actions of the other Jewish leaders.