Down from the Cross and Laid in a Tomb
Luke 23:51-53 and a Silhouetted Cross, Papillion, Nebraska.
“Now there was a Council member named Joseph, a good and righteous man, who had not consented to their decision or action. He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was waiting for the kingdom of God. He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.” Luke 23:51-53
Laid in a Tomb
Joseph of Arimathea was one of the few godly Pharisees. He did not want Jesus’s body put in a mass grave so He asked the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate for the body of Jesus. With Pilate’s permission He took Jesus’s body down from the cross and laid it in a Tomb.
Because Joseph took the body of Christ and placed it in a marked tomb people knew where the body lay. Three days later, Christ rose from the dead, that tomb was empty and the Jews knew it.
Joseph’s simple act of faithfulness gave evidence for the risen Christ! What simply act of faithfulness has God ask you to do?
Read about the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ in Luke 23 and 24.
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Wonderful lesson, and marvelous question! Thank you, Pat. May God cause this illness to pass over and not touch you and your loved ones.
You’re welcome and thank you. I hope you had a blessed day celebrating Christ’s Resurrection! May God keep you and your family well.
Our hope as we know that Christ died for our sins .
Amen Lois!
His body rested in a tomb on the Sabbath. Such a lovely picture of keeping holy the Lord’s Day!
Yes, It is a beautiful picture of that.
Amen! The Fourth Commandment.
God recorded the Fourth Commandment in Exodus 20:8-11 (this is numbered as the Third Commandment by Catholics and Lutherans):
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”