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The help of these rich and honored men was
greatly needed at this time. They could do for
their dead Master what it was impossible for
the poor disciples to do.
Gently and reverently they, with their own
hands, removed the body of Christ from the
cross. Their tears of sympathy fell fast, as
they looked upon His bruised and torn form.
Joseph owned a new tomb hewn in a rock. He
had built it for his own use; but he now
prepared it for Jesus. The body, together with
the spices brought by Nicodemus, was
wrapped in a linen sheet, and the Redeemer
was borne to the tomb.
Although the Jewish rulers had succeeded in
putting Christ to death, they could not rest
easy. They well knew of His mighty power.
Some of them had stood by the grave of
Lazarus, and had seen the dead brought back
to life, and they trembled for fear that Christ
