Jesus died at three o'clock in the afternoon. Darkness had covered the land since noon, and the curtain of the temple was split in two, this is symbolic of the division between God and man been done away with. It is significant that it is after the curtain was torn in two that Jesus commits His spirit to the Father. Now that the barrier between man and God was dealt with His work was finished, the full price of our sin had been paid for.
The centurion recognised that Jesus was a righteous man. The whole manner of His crucifixion, His reaction to it all, and His death were very different from all the others he had seen. This was no ordinary crucifixion. The crowds beat their breasts in anguish. Those who knew Jesus watched from a distance, wondering what it all meant.
Jesus was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. Tombs normally held several bodies, but this was a new one, so Jesus was the only body.
Luke notes that the women saw which tomb Jesus was buried in. This is to counter the objection that the women went to the wrong tomb when they discovered that He had risen.
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