A councillor of honourable estate (ευσχημων βουλευτης). A senator or member of the Sanhedrin of high standing, rich ([Reference Ma…

Joseph—an honourable counsellor. A distinguished man, who probably held a high office among the Jews, as one of their great council or a J…

Joseph of Arimathea. The account given of him is fuller than in St. Matthew. The phrase, which also waited for the kingdom of …

I have no doubt that Pilate was very surprised that a member of the Sanhedrin should come and ask for the body of Jesus, when, a little while befor…

Glossa Ordinaria: After Christ's Passion and Death, the Evangelist relates His burial, saying, And now when evening had co…

Preparation Day was the name given to the day before a festival or a Sabbath. Here it refers to the day before the Sabbath (as Mark explains for th…

Mark 15:43 and Luke 23:51. Who also himself was waiting for the kingdom of God. The highest commendation bestowed on Jo…

Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable counsellor
A man of a good aspect, well dressed, and that behaved well and honour…

We are here attending the burial of our Lord Jesus. Oh that we may by grace be planted in the likeness of it! Joseph of Arimathea was one who waite…