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“And after this Joseph of Arimathaea…besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus…and there came also Nicodemus…then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury” (John 19:38-40).
“Men appointed His grave with the wicked, but He was with the rich in His death” (Isaiah 53:9).
When once the work of redemption was complete, God did not allow wicked hands to touch the body of His Son again. He provided true believers—Joseph and Nicodemus, to bury the Lord Jesus. More than this, they were rich men, and Joseph had a new tomb, hewn out of the rock, ready no doubt for his own burial. But he willingly gave that tomb for the Lord Jesus. Also, they buried Him with one hundred pounds of spices—a tremendous amount, and very costly too. God saw to it that His Son was given a rich man’s burial, because of who He was. No doubt Pilate and others would have buried the Lord Jesus in a common criminals’ grave, but God had said otherwise in Isaiah, hundreds of years before. God’s prophecies are always fulfilled!
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