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Luke 23:51
“(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:”
Verse in context — Luke 23
49
All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.
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Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
51
(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:
52
this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
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He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.
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