Gospel Of Mark Lent Readings Day 37: Mark 15:40-47

There were also women watching from afar,

Among whom were both Mary Magdalene,

And Mary the mother of James the Lesson of Joses and Salome,

Who when he was in Galilee followed him and served him,

And many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

When evening had now come,

Because it was the preparation day,

That is the day before the Sabbath,

Joseph of Arimathea,

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.

Pilate marvelled if he were already dead,

And summoning the centurion he asked him whether he had been dead long.

When he found out from the centurion he granted the body to Joseph.

He 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.

Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.