The disciples felt Friday's agony, and they could do nothing about it. Jesus was on the Cross. He was dying there, a death He did not deserve. He was wrongly accused, illegally tried, unjustly convicted, and now was being killed. They could not figure it all out.
Life is like that sometimes.
Saturday's Despair Friday's agony gives way to Saturday's despair. And Pilate wondered if He was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He was already dead. And ascertaining this from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where He was laid. Joseph had suddenly become more than a secret disciple.