Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Therefore Arm Yourselves With The Same Intention

4 Therefore, Christ having suffered in the flesh, you also arm-yourselves with the same intention^[a]. Because the one having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, ² so as to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for^[b] the desires of humans, but for^[c] the will of God. ³ For the time having passed is enough for you to have worked-out the will of the Gentiles, having walked in sensualities, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking-parties and unlawful idolatries, ⁴ in connection with which they are thinking-it-strange that you are not running-with them into the same excess^[d] of wild-living, while they continue blaspheming— ⁵ who shall render an account to the One being ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ For to this end it^[e] was announced-as-good-news even to the dead^[f]: that they might be judged according-to^[g] people in the flesh^[h], but be living according to God in the spirit^[i]. ⁷ And^[j] the end of all things has drawn-near.

So Be Sober In Prayer, Loving One Another, And Good Stewards of God’s Gifts To You

Therefore be sound-minded and be sober in^[k] your prayers— ⁸ above all, having fervent love for each other, because love covers a multitude of sins;

Jesus Is Laid In a Rich Man’s Tomb

⁵⁷ Now having become evening^[a], a rich man from Arimathea came, Joseph as to the-name, who also himself became-a-disciple to Jesus. ⁵⁸ This one, having gone to Pilate, asked-for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered that it be given-back. ⁵⁹ And having taken the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen-cloth ⁶⁰ and laid it in his new tomb which he hewed in the rock. And having rolled a large stone to the door of the tomb, he departed. ⁶¹ And Mary the Magdalene was there, and the other^[b] Mary, sitting in front of the burial-place.

The Tomb Is Secured And Roman Guards Posted

⁶² Now on the next-day^[c] which is after the Preparation^[d] day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together with Pilate, ⁶³ saying, “Sir, we remembered that that deceiver said while still alive, ‘I am arising after three days’. ⁶⁴ Therefore, give-orders that the burial-place be made-secure until the third day, so that His disciples, having come, might not at any time steal Him and say to the people, ‘He arose from the dead’, and the last deception will be worse than the first”. ⁶⁵ Pilate said to them, “Have^[e] a guard^[f]. Go, make it secure as you know-how”. ⁶⁶ And the ones, having gone, made the burial-place secure, having sealed the stone along-with^[g] the guard.

Joseph Lays Jesus In a Tomb

³⁸ Now after these things Joseph from Arimathea— being a disciple of Jesus, but having been hidden^[a] because of the fear of the Jews— asked Pilate in order that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted it. So he came and took away His body. ³⁹ And Nicodemus also came— the one having first come to Him by night— bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds^[b]. ⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen-cloths with the spices, as is the custom for the Jews to prepare-for-burial. ⁴¹ Now there was a garden in the place where He was crucified. And in the garden was a new tomb in which no one yet had been laid. ⁴² So there— because of the Preparation day of the Jews, because the tomb was near— they laid Jesus.