Luke 23:52

This Joseph came to Pilate, and asked (for) the body of Jesus,

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In The King James Version

This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.

In Context

51this man consented not to the counsel and to the deeds of them; and he abode the kingdom of God. (this man did not agree with, or approve of, their plan and their deeds; and he was waiting for the Kingdom of God.)

53and took it down, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid him in a grave hewn (or and laid him in a tomb cut out of the rock), in which not yet any man had been laid [or in which not yet any man was put].

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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 →

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