38After these things Joseph from Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus but hidden because of fear of the Jews, asked Pilate in order that he might take up the body of Jesus, and Pilate permitted. He therefore came and took up his body.39Nicodemus also came, the one who had come to him at first by night, bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.40They therefore took the body of Jesus and bound it with bandages together with the spices, just as the custom of the Jews is to prepare for burial.41Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new grave in which no one had yet been placed.42Therefore on account of the Preparation of the Jews, because the grave was near, they placed Jesus there.