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| After the crucifixion of Jesus, Joseph requested from Pilate the body
of Jesus.
Luke chapter 23, verse 50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. Matthew chapter 27, verse 57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. A pious and rich man who, as is stated above in the Gospel of Matthew, a disciple of Jesus, and below in the Gospel of John as a secret disciple. And clearly a follower who wanted to know more about real life (reality). John chapter 19, verse 38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea,
being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought
Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus:
Here below we find that Nicodemus came along and helped out with the 'mixture of myrrh and aloes' John chapter 19, verse 39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. Not a lot is really known about Joseph of Arimathaea during the first century but after that other 'histories' were written. Whether they can be trustworthy is hard to tell as all history is difficult to deal with due to the time that has past and those who were there are now gone. According to the non-cannon Gospels there is much more written of Joseph of Arimathaea. He is also wriiten about by other people in history like Philo, and other writings about Joseph of Arimathaea to add to the romance of legend. And as has been mentioned previously it is hard to find the truth in the written texts of old. |