Luke 23:52

New American Bible - revised edition

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

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had not consented to their plan of action. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea and was awaiting the kingdom of God.

After he had taken the body down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid him in a rock-hewn tomb in which no one had yet been buried.