My throat is as dry as dust, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have left me for dead in the dust.

He was placed in a grave with those who are evil, he was buried with the rich, even though he had never committed a crime or ever told a lie."

In the same way that Jonah spent three days and nights in the big fish, so will the Son of Man spend three days and nights in the depths of the earth.

And after they had done everything that the Scriptures say about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

that he was buried and that he was raised to life three days later, as written in the Scriptures;

For when you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and in baptism you were also raised with Christ through your faith in the active power of God, who raised him from death.

It was then almost noon of the day before the Passover. Pilate said to the people, "Here is your king!"

Then the Jewish authorities asked Pilate to allow them to break the legs of the men who had been crucified, and to take the bodies down from the crosses. They requested this because it was Friday, and they did not want the bodies to stay on the crosses on the Sabbath, since the coming Sabbath was especially holy.