Luke 23:51
(This one had not consented to their cheshbon and action) came from Ramatayim, a shtetl of Yehudah. He was waiting expectantly for the Malchut Hashem.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
50And, hinei, a man by name Yosef being a member of the Sanhedrin, and an ish tov and a tzaddik,
52He approached Pilate, and asked for the gufat Yehoshua. + 23:52 Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25-27; Isa 53:11
Cross References
Genesis 37:21And Reuven heard it, and he saved him out of their yadayim; and said, Let us not take his nefesh.
Genesis 49:18I have waited for Thy Yeshu'ah (Salvation), Hashem. 1
1 Samuel 1:1Now there was a certain man of Ramatayim Tzophim, of the hill country of Ephrayim, and his name was Elkanah ben Yerocham ben Elihu ben Tochu ben Tzuph, from Ephrat;
Isaiah 8:12Call ye not Kesher (Conspiracy) all that this people calls kesher; neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread.
Luke 2:25And there was an ish in Yerushalayim whose shem was Shim'on, a tzaddik, a chasid, awaiting the Nechamat Yisroel (Consolation of Israel), and the Ruach Hakodesh was upon him. + 2:25 Isa 52:9
Luke 23:42And he was saying, Adoni, remember me when you come into your Malchut.
Matthew Henry on Luke 23:51-56
The Burial of Christ. 50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: 51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathæa, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. 52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. 53 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. 54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath… Read the whole commentary →