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Luke 23:51-55

King James Version (KJV)

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51. (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) [he was] of Arimathaea, 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 drew on. 55. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.

Luke 23:51-55 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Luke 23:51

Theological / Devotional

Not consented. Joseph and Nicodemus had not been summoned to the session of the Sanhedrin at which Jesus was tried and found guilty of blasphemy (DA 539, 699).

The omission was deliberate. The vote to condemn Jesus was unanimous (see on Mark 14:64). Had these two righteous men been present, they certainly would have raised their voices in protest, as they had on former occasions (see DA 460, 539, 699, 773; see on John 7:50, 51).

A city of the Jews. An explanatory note probably added by Luke for the benefit of his non-Jewish readers (see p. 664).

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