1Then they removed the nails from the hands of the Lord and laid him on the ground.
2The whole earth trembled and an enormous panic came upon them.
3Soon the sun shone and it was proved to be the ninth hour.
4Then the Jews rejoiced and delivered the body to Joseph so that he might bury it, since this one had been a witness of all the good that Jesus had done.
5Taking the body of the Lord, he washed it, wrapped it in a linen cloth and placed it in his own sepulcher, called the Garden of Joseph.
6Then the Jews, the elders and the priests perceived the evil they had brought upon themselves and began to beat their breasts saying: 'Cursed be our iniquities! Behold the judgment and the end of Jerusalem approaches.'