King James Version (KJV)
Luke 23:51
“(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.”
Verse in context — Luke 23
49
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
50
And, behold, [there was] a man named Joseph, a counsellor; [and he was] a good man, and a just:
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.
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