Joseph of Arimathea was, according to the
Gospels, the man who donated his own prepared
tomb for the burial of
Jesus after Jesus was
crucified. A native of
Arimathea, he was apparently a man of wealth, and probably a member of the
Sanhedrin (which is the way bouleutēs, literally "counsellor", is often interpreted in and ). Joseph was an "honourable counsellor, who waited (or "was searching") for the
kingdom of God" (
Mark 15:43), according to he was secretly a
disciple of Jesus. As soon as he heard the news of Jesus' death, he "went in boldly unto
Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus." The Scholars Version notes this as "unexpected… Is Joseph in effect bringing Jesus into his family?"
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[Arthurian] In the New Testament, Joseph is a rich man who lays Jesus' body in the tomb after procuring it from Pilate. There is an account of his imprisonment and deliverance by the risen Christ in an apocryphal work, the Acts of Pilate. Joseph by Robert de Boron and the Estoire del Saint Graal elaborate this tale. Joseph, it is said, came into possesion of the Holy Grail and subsequently learned its mysteries from Christ. The vessel also sustained the old man during his long imprisonment. Upon his release by Vespasian, he sets off with a party of companions (some say Lazarus and Mary Magdelene) on a set of divinely guided treks that eventually bring the Grail to Britain. There is a dispute amongst romancers as to whether Joseph actually made it to Britain and they prominently feature a son named Josephe or Josephus, who actually does set foot on British soil. Joseph himself is the prototypical Grail-keeper and figurative ancestor of all after him down to Pelles and Galahad. The Monastery of G...
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