- 54. Joseph of Arimathaea. The taking down from the Cross. The Entombment.

50. a counseller i.e. a member of the Sanhedrin, and therefore (as one of the 70 most distinguished members of the ruling classes) a person of great distinction. St Mark (Mark 15:43) calls him -an honourable councillor." Godet somewhat fancifully sees in St Mark's description of him the Roman ideal; as in St Luke's -good and just," the Greek ideal (καλὸς κἀγαθός );and in St Matthew's -a richman," the Jewish ideal.

a good man, and a just The first word describes his moral character, the latter his strict religious life as an orthodox Jew. Romans 5:7.

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