or the day before the sabbath,) Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counsellor, who also was expecting the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.

And behold there was a man of Arimathea, a city of the Jews, named Joseph, a counsellor, a good man and a just:

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor?