The great misnomer for non Christians that the day Jesus Christ was executed by occupying Romans, is celebrated by Christians as "Good" Friday must be a paradox of ominous proportions.
the body is taken to joseph s tomb and prepared for burial. when nicodemus is willing to get involved within the burial, he s supplying really, very expensive products to be used in the process of embalming the body. first century jewish law said that to touch a dead body would make you unclean, and so for joseph and nicodemus to actually go through the process of preparing jesus for burial, there had to have been tremendous love and devotion just to care for him. a rock is rolled across the entrance to seal the tomb shut. three days after the crucifixion, john and simon
shroud begins. all four gospels talk about the burial cloth in which the crucified body of jesus is laid to rest. the bible tells that the cloth was given by joseph of arimathea, a wealthy member of the jewish council, the sanhedrin. the gospels described joseph of arimathea as being a sympathizer with the jesus movement. he s fascinated by jesus, so fascinated that even after the crucifixion, he wants to make sure that the right thing is done, that jesus gets the right burial. everyone who encounters jesus in the gospels is in some way transformed. they re either healed, or they want to follow him, and so simply meeting jesus, even for one time, was life-changing, and that probably changed joseph s life. but first, joseph needs permission to take jesus down