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Pilate said to them, "You have a guard; go, make it secure as you know how." And they went and made the tomb secure with the guard, sealing the stone. Matthew 27:65-66

On Saturday of the Passion Week, Jesus' dead body was lying in a borrowed tomb. Following His death on Friday Joseph of Arimathea, who had become a disciple of Jesus, asked Pilate if he could take the body of Jesus to bury it. Joseph was a wealthy man, so he already had a new tomb prepared that had been cut out in the rock. When he was permitted to take Jesus' body, he wrapped the body in a clean linen cloth and laid it in the tomb. Then, he rolled a large stone against the entrance of it and departed.