Event · Jesus and the Gospels
The burial
The burialMark 15:42–47AD 30 or AD 333 parallel accounts
Joseph of Arimathea, with Nicodemus, lays Jesus' body in a new tomb, and a stone is rolled across the entrance.
- Main passage Mark 15:42–47
- Also told in Matthew 27:57–66Luke 23:50–56John 19:38–42
People JesusJoseph of ArimatheaMary MagdaleneNicodemus
- Place in the order
- Explicit biblical sequence Scripture itself gives the order of these events.
- Historical setting
- AD 30 or AD 33 Disputed date
Under Pontius Pilate (governor AD 26-36), on a Passover Friday. AD 30 and AD 33 are most often proposed.
Proposals: 7 April AD 30; 3 April AD 33
Read it
Mark 15:42–47 WEB
42When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, 43Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. 44Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. 45When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. 46He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. 47Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.