Bible Verses

On the Sabbath, the women rested according to the commandment, but on the first day of the week, at dawn, they went to the tomb with the perfumes and ointments they had prepared. 

Resurrection of Jesus

Returning home, they prepared perfumes and ointments. On the Sabbath day, they rested as the law required.

So the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph to see the tomb and how his body was laid. 

It was the day of preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning. 

 He then took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb that had never been used, cut out of a rock. 

Joseph went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.

from the Judean town of Arimathea. He did not agree with the decision and actions of his fellow members, and he lived uprightly in the hope of seeing the kingdom of God. 

Then a member of the Jewish supreme council intervened, a good and righteous man named Joseph, 

But those who knew Jesus, along with the women who had followed him from Galilee, stayed there at a distance. They saw everything that took place.