⁴⁴ Pilate was surprised that Jesus had already died. He asked the captain of the soldiers to come to him. He asked him if Jesus had already died. ⁴⁵ The captain told Pilate that Jesus was already dead. So then Pilate let Joseph go and take Jesus' dead body. ⁴⁶ Joseph bought a piece of linen cloth. He took Jesus' body down from the cross and he put the cloth around it. Then he put the body in a large hole in a rock. People had made that hole to put dead bodies in. After this, Joseph rolled a big stone across the front of the hole to shut it.