"Prepared for Revival", Bishop Charles Stores, Princeton, W.VA.

Matthew 27:57-66

57 *In the evening, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus. 58 He going to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus: then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And Joseph taking the body wrapped it in clean linen, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, departed. 61 And Mary Magdalene was there and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. 62 Now on the morrow the day after the day of preparation the chief priests and Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate, 63 Saying, Sir, we remember, that impostor said while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured till the third day, lest his disciples coming steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; so the last imposture shall be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said to them, Ye have a guard; go make it as secure as you can. 66 So they went and secured the sepulchre, sealing the stone, and setting a guard.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old and New Testament: Translation (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2012), Mt 27:57–66.