Readings for Lent and Easter

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.