Word: arimathaea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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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