Joseph's Service

<p>‘And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:<br> ‘(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.<br> ‘This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.<br> ‘And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.’<br> <em>—Luke 23:50–53</em></p>