³⁸ And after this, Joseph of Arimathea—a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews—asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate granted him permission. So he came and took away His body.

³⁹ And Nicodemus also, who first had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, [weighing] about a hundred pounds.

⁴⁰ So they took Jesus’ body and bound it in linen cloths with the spices (aromatics), as is the Jews’ customary way to prepare for burial.

⁴¹ Now there was a garden in the place where He was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever [yet] been laid.

⁴² So there, because of the Jewish day of Preparation [and] since the tomb was near by, they laid Jesus.

20 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been removed from (lifted out of the groove across the entrance of) the tomb.

² So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus [tenderly] loved, and said to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him!

³ Upon this, Peter and the other disciple came out and they went toward the tomb.

⁴ And they came running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and arrived at the tomb first.

⁵ And stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not enter.

⁶ Then Simon Peter came up, following him, and went into the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there;

⁷ But the burial napkin (kerchief) which had been around Jesus’ head, was not lying with the other linen cloths, but was [still] ^[a]rolled up (wrapped round and round) in a place by itself.

⁸ Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went in too; and he saw and was convinced and believed.

⁹ For as yet they did not know (understand) the statement of Scripture that He must rise again from the dead.^(A)