Matthew 27:57-60 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:… There has been no time to get a bier, or it is felt that the distance is so short that it is not needed. That body, however, has the best bier of all — the hands of true affection to lift it and carry it across to the new tomb which waits to receive it. The feet let us assign to Joseph, the body to Nicodemus, and that regal head with those closed eyes, over whom the shadows of the resurrection are already flitting, let us lay it on the breast of the beloved disciple John, who, possibly, was present standing with the Galilean women. The last service which Jesus ever needed at the hands of men it has been their privilege to render. For this service shall we not honour them, and forget that they were once secret disciples? Yea, verily; what they thus did for the Lord's burial shall be told for a memorial of them, wherever this gospel of the kingdom is preached. (Dr. Hanna.) Parallel Verses KJV: When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: |
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