They supposedly went to Pilate to get him to seal the sepulcher so that he could not escape and recover.
Holy Sepulcher was not built as a parish church, but as a wayside chapel, or oratory.
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime, Rise and deride this sepulcher of crime.
Earth was an open sepulcher; and each man hated his God.
The men then made a sepulcher for Him In sight of me.