Bible Verses About Joseph

Towards evening, there came a wealthy man from Ramatayim named Yosef, who was himself a talmid of Yeshua.

He approached Pilate and asked for Yeshua's body, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Yosef took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen sheet,

and laid it in his own tomb, which he had recently had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone in front of the entrance to the tomb, he went away.

Since it was Preparation Day (that is, the day before a Shabbat), as evening approached,

Yosef of Ramatayim, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who himself was also looking forward to the Kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Yeshua's body.

Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead, so he summoned the officer and asked him if he had been dead awhile.

After he had gotten confirmation from the officer that Yeshua was dead, he granted Yosef the corpse.

Yosef purchased a linen sheet; and after taking Yeshua down, he wrapped him in the linen sheet, laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.

Miryam of Magdala and Miryam the mother of Yosi saw where he had been laid.

There was a man named Yosef, a member of the Sanhedrin. He was a good man, a tzaddik;

and he had not been in agreement with either the Sanhedrin’s motivation or their action. He came from the town of Ramatayim, a town of the Judeans; and he looked forward to the Kingdom of God.

This man approached Pilate and asked for Yeshua’s body.

He took it down, wrapped it in a linen sheet, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, that had never been used.

It was Preparation Day, and a Shabbat was about to begin.

The women who had come with Yeshua from the Galil followed; they saw the tomb and how his body was placed in it.

Then they went back home to prepare spices and ointments. On Shabbat the women rested, in obedience to the commandment;

After this, Yosef of Ramatayim, who was a talmid of Yeshua, but a secret one out of fear of the Judeans, asked Pilate if he could have Yeshua’s body. Pilate gave his consent, so Yosef came and took the body away.

Also Nakdimon, who at first had gone to see Yeshua by night, came with some seventy pounds of spices — a mixture of myrrh and aloes.

They took Yeshua’s body and wrapped it up in linen sheets with the spices, in keeping with Judean burial practice.

In the vicinity of where he had been executed was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever been buried.

So, because it was Preparation Day for the Judeans, and because the tomb was close by, that is where they buried Yeshua.

Therefore, one of the men who have been with us continuously throughout the time the Lord Yeshua traveled around among us,

from the time Yochanan was immersing people until the day Yeshua was taken up from us — one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.”

They nominated two men — Yosef Bar-Sabba, surnamed Justus, and Mattityahu.