It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath).1
So as evening approached, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent
member of the Council,2 who was himself waiting for the kingdom
of God,3 went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body. Pilate
was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the
centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. When he
learned from the centurion4 that it was so, he gave the body to
Joseph. So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body,
wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of
rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the
tomb.547 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses6 saw where
he was laid.