Bible Verses About Joseph

And when even was come, there came a rich man from Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:

this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded it to be given up.

And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

And when even was now come, because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

there came Joseph of Arimathæa, a councillor of honorable estate, who also himself was looking for the kingdom of God; and he boldly went in unto Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

And when he learned it of the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph.

And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

And behold, a man named Joseph, who was a councillor, a good and righteous man

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), a man of Arimathæa, a city of the Jews, who was looking for the kingdom of God:

this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

And he took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was hewn in stone, where never man had yet lain.

And it was the day of the Preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

And the women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid.

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. And on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

And after these things Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took away his body.

And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.

So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb wherein was never man yet laid.

There then because of the Jews’ Preparation (for the tomb was nigh at hand) they laid Jesus.

Of the men therefore that have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day that he was received up from us, of these must one become a witness with us of his resurrection.

And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.