58. This man went to Pilate and asked for the gufat Yehoshua [TEHILLIM 16:9-10]. Then Pilate ordered it to be given over to Yosef.
59. And Yosef took the gufat Yehoshua, and wrapped it in the tachrichim,
60. and laid it in Yosef's own new kever, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the kever (tomb) and went away [Isa 53:9].
61. And Miryam of Magdala, and the other Miryam, stayed there, sitting opposite the kever.
62. Now on the next day [i.e., Motzoei Shabbos], which is the one after the Preparation, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Perushim gathered together with Pilate
63. and said, Sir, we remember that when he was still alive that mateh (deceiver) said, After shloshah yamim I am to stand up alive.
64. Therefore, give orders for the kever to be made secure until the Yom HaShlishi (the Third Day), lest his talmidim come and steal him away and say to the people, He has stood up alive from the mesim. And the last deception will be worse than the first.
65. Pilate said to them, You have a guard, go make the kever as secure as you know how.
66. And they went and made the kever secure, and, along with the guard, they set a seal on the stone.