“"But Joseph went, and begged the body." This was Joseph, who was concealing his discipleship of late; now however he had become very bold after the death of Christ. For neither was he an obscure person, nor of the unnoticed; but one of the council, and highly distinguished; from which circumstance especially one may s…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of Matthew 88
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58He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
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56Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.
57When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:
— Matthew 27:58 —
59And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
60And 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.