Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable
counselor, which also waited for the kingdom of God 15:43 )
I consider this one of the
sublimest, grandest acts that any man ever did. In the darkness and gloom, His
disciples having all forsaken Him, Judas having sold Him for thirty pieces of
silver, the chief apostle Peter having denied Him with a curse, swearing that
he never knew Him, the chief priests having found Him guilty of blasphemy, the
council having condemned Him to death, and when there was a hiss going up to
heaven from over all Jerusalem, Joseph went right against the current, right against
the influence of all his friends, and begged the body of Jesus.
Blessed act! Doubtless he
upbraided himself for not having been more bold in his defense of Christ when
He was tried, and before He was condemned to be crucified. The Scripture says he
was an honorable man, an honorable counselor, a rich man, and yet we have only
the record of that one thing—the one act of begging the body of Jesus. But what
he did for the Son of God, out of pure love for Him, will live forever; that
one act rises up above everything else that Joseph of Arimathea ever did.
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