27 And when the guards returned they said, The Nazarene is dead; the malefactors are alive.
28 And Pilate told the guards to go and smite the living men so they would die, and then to give their bodies to the flames; but give the body of the Nazarene to rabbis who would call for it.
29 The soldiers did as Pilate said.
30 The rabbis came and took away the body of the Lord and when they had prepared it with the spices they had bought,
31 They laid it in the new-made tomb that had been made for Joseph in a solid rock.
32 And then they rolled a stone up to the sepulcher.
33 The priests were fearful lest the friends of Jesus would go forth at night and take away the body of the Nazarene, and then report that he had risen from the dead, as he had said;
34 And they requested that the governor would send his soldiers to the tomb to guard the body of the dead.
35 But Pilate said, I will not send a Roman guard; but you have Jewish soldiers and may send a hundred men with a centurion to guard the tomb.
36 And then they sent a hundred soldiers out to guard the tomb.