It was the Preparation Day, and then the next day was a special Sabbath. Because the Jews didn’t want the bodies left on the cross on the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have their legs broken and that they might be taken down.
Then they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. [Many early manuscripts do not include the text of verses 9-20.]
While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume from pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it over his head.
They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.