Word: arimathaea
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...brought to the project a rare combination of religious sensitivity and film expertise (Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew). Novelist Anthony Burgess has written an intelligent script, and the notable cast includes Anne Bancroft (Mary Magdalene), James Earl Jones (Balthasar), Stacy Keach (Barabbas), James Mason (Joseph of Arimathaea), Laurence Olivier (Nicodemus), Christopher Plummer (Herod Antipas), Ralph Richardson (Simeon), Rod Steiger (Pontius Pilate) and Peter Ustinov (Herod the Great...
Christ was buried at night, so the Omaha mortician who put away the remains of Franklyn R. Rees after dark had excellent authority for his ceremony (TIME, April 27). Matthew records (XXVIII-57) that the "even was come" when Joseph of Arimathaea begged the body of Jesus from Pilate, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb. John records (XIX-39) that Nicodemus came to the body of Jesus ''by night" with myrrh and aloes and only thereafter was it buried in the sepulchre...
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