Look, I'm not going to lie to you sometime today and or tomorrow. We're going to talk about the Holy

Grail and King Arthur, medieval magic and legends, and it's going to be awesome.

And I bet you know why we're gonna, right?

Because this is like one of those super famous legends from all of time that almost everybody's heard about because we're talking about Joseph of Verimathia.

This is one of those names that comes up in all of the shows where some clever professor has to go and crack the historical code by

looking at all of the secret symbols that were left behind by the Knights

Templar so we can get to the secret McGuffin treasure faster than the evil treasure hunters who want to sell

it to the Nazis.

You know, that Joseph Verimuthier comes up right here in Matthew 27.

We just got done with all of the stuff comparing the two sets of witnesses, the unreliable witnesses

happened at the Kangaroo court trial of Jesus before he goes to pilot and gets executed on the

cross. And then we contrast that with witnesses who on paper don't look

nearly as impressive but they see things right and get it right that being the

centurion and his men and that being these faithful women who funded and put their necks on the line and

we're willing to be seen in public the vouching for Jesus grieving over Jesus

being there in support of Jesus as he's on the cross. Very powerful stuff. Well now Jesus is dead. So what happens to the body? That gets us into the next little chunk of story here in Matthew 2757 and it goes like this. As evening approached there came a rich man from

Aremathia named Joseph who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.

Now as Joseph guy is a very big deal for the first thousand years of Christianity.

He is revered as a saint by the Western Catholic Church, by the Eastern Orthodox Church, but he's a pretty popular guy and he's

got a pretty great reputation even if we just go with what we know from the Bible.

He's a guy who looks like he was a secret follower of Jesus

against all odds. It looks like it would cost him something to go and do what he's

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