⁴⁸ Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar,^(A) put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink.

³⁶ Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar,^(A) put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down,” he said.

³⁷ With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.^(B)

³⁸ The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.^{(C) 39} And when the centurion,^(D) who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died,^[a] he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”^(E)

⁴⁰ Some women were watching from a distance.^(F) Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph,^[b] and Salome.^{(G) 41} In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.^(H)

The Burial of Jesus^(I)

⁴² It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath).^(J) So as evening approached, ⁴³ Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council,^(K) who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God,^(L) went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. ⁴⁴ Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. ⁴⁵ When he learned from the centurion^(M) that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. ⁴⁶ So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.^{(N) 47} Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph^(O) saw where he was laid.

²⁹ A jar of wine vinegar^(A) was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. ³⁰ When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.”^(B) With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.