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down, they wrapped it up in the fine linen cloth with the spices, as
the manner of the Jews is to bury. And the Sabbath drew on.

                Now there was in the place where He was crucified, a garden [containing Joseph's] own new
                        sepulcher which he had hewed out of a rock, and wherein no man had ever yet been laid. There,
                            therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus, because the sepulcher was nigh at
                hand. And [they] rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and went [their] way.

                        And there was there Mary Magdalen, and the other Mary sitting over against the sepulcher, [who]
                            beheld the sepulcher and how His body was laid. And returning, they prepared spices and ointments.
And on the Sabbath day they rested, according to the commandment.

                        And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, 23 the chief priests and the Pharisees
                        came together to Pilate, saying, "Sir, we have remembered that that seducer, while He was yet
                        alive, said, After three days I will rise again: Command therefore the sepulcher to be guarded
                            until the third day, lest perhaps His disciples come and steal Him away, and say to the people: 'He
                        is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first." Pilate saith to them:
                            "You have a guard. Go, guard it as you know." And they, departing, made the sepulcher sure, sealing
the stone and setting guards.

Matthew 27:57-66; Mark 15:42-47;
Luke 23:50-56; John 19:31-42

                        And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of
                                grace and of prayers, and they shall look upon Me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for
                            him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for
the death of the firstborn.

Zacharias 12:10

23 The day of preparation: The eve of the Sabbath; so called, because on that day they prepared
all things necessary, not being allowed so much as to dress their meat on the Sabbath day.