Bible verses about "joseph" | Moffatt

⁴² By this time it was evening, and as it was the day of Preparation (that is, the day before the sabbath) ⁴³ Joseph of Arimathaea, a councillor of good position who himself was on the outlook for the Reign of God, ventured to go to Pilate and ask for the body of Jesus. ⁴⁴ Pilate was surprised that he was dead already; he summoned the captain and asked if he had been dead some time, ⁴⁵ and on ascertaining this from the captain he bestowed the corpse on Joseph. ⁴⁶ He, after buying a linen sheet, took him down and swathed him in the linen, laying him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock and rolling a boulder up against the opening of the tomb. ⁴⁷ Now Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses noted where he was laid.

⁹ Out of jealousy the patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him,