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KATA MAPKON XV. 43—47- βατον, 43. ἦλθεν 1 Ἰωσὴφ ὁ ἀπὸ ᾿Αριμαθαίας, εὐσχήμων βουλευτής, ὃς καὶ αὐτὸς ἦν προσδεχόµενος τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ: τολµήσας. εἰσῆλθε πρὸς ” Πιλάτον, καὶ ᾖἠτήσατο τὸ σῶμα τοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ. 44. 6 δὲ Πιλάτος ἐθαύμασεν ὃ εἰ ἤδη τέθνηκε' καὶ προσκαλεσάµενος τὸν κεντυρίωνα, ἐπηρώτησεν αὐτὸν ei πάλαι « ἀπέθανε" 45. καὶ γνοὺς. ἀπὸ τοῦ κεντυρίωνος, ἐδωρήσατο τὸ σῶμαῦ τῷ Ἰωσήφ. 46. καὶ ἀγοράσας σινδόνα, καὶ ὃ καθελὼν αὐτόν, ἐνείλησε τῇ σινδόνι, καὶ. κατέθηκεν Ἰ αὐτὸν ἐν μνημείῳ;ὃ ὃ ἦν λελατομημένον ἐκ πέτρας: καὶ
προσεκύλισε λίθον ἐπὶ τὴν θύραν τοῦ μνημείου. Μαγδαληνὴ καὶ Μαρία ἸΙωσῆ ®
1 ελθων in NABCLA, etc., ηλθεν in D.
47. ἡ δὲ Μαρία % ἐθεώρουν ποῦ τίθεται.10
2 arpos τον in NBLA 33.
® NOD have εθαυµαζεν (Tisch.), aor. (T.R.) in BCLA (W.H.).
4 παλαι in SCL (Tisch.), ηδη in BD (W.H. text, παλαι marg.).
5 πτωµα in BDL; changed into σωµα from a feeling of decorum. 6 S8BDL cop. omit και, added as a connecting particle.
7 εθηκεν in SBDL (W.H.).
5 SQB have µνηµατι, instead of µνηµειω in CDLA. Tisch. and W.H. adopt
reading of SB.
δη before loo. in BCA; lwontos in BLA.
be gone about without delay. It was already the afternoon of the day be- fore the Sabbath, προσάββατον, called παρασκευή (here and in the parallels in this technical sense). It must, therefore, be done at once, or it could not be done till Sabbath was past.— Ver. 43. εὐσχήμων: Mt. has πλούσιος; vide there for remarks on the two epithets.—BovAeurys, a councillor, not in the provincial town, Arimathaea, which would have been mentioned, but in the grand council in Jerusalem.—kat αὐτὸς: not in contrast to the Sanhedrists generally (Weiss), but in company with the women previously named (Schanz) ; he, like them, was an expectant of the Kingdom of God.—roApyoas: a graphic word, in Mk. only, giving a vivid idea of the situation. Objections to be feared on Pilate’s part on score of time—dead so soon? possibly surly indifference to the decencies of burial in the case of a crucified person, risk of offence to the religious leaders in Jerusalem by sym- pathy shown to the obnoxious One, even in death. Therefore to be rendered: “taking courage, went in unto Pilate” (vide Field, Ot. Nor., ad loc.).—Ver. 44. Omitted by Mt., whose narrative through- out is colourless compared with Mk.’s.— et τέθνηκε: ef = ὅτι, after a verb of wonder (vide Burton, M.and Τ., § 277, and Winer, § Ix., 6).—ei ἀπέθανε: τέθνηκε
10 τεθειται in BCDLA 33.
has reference to the present of the speaker, ἀπέθανε to the moment of death.—wdhat: opposed to ἄρτι, and not implying a considerable time before, but only bare priority to the present. Pilate’s. question to the centurion was, did He die before now? =is He actually dead ?— —Ver. 45. Satisfied on the point Pilate freely gives (ἐδωρήσατο) the carcase (πτῶμα, SBDL, corrected from feelings of reverence into σῶμα in many MSS.). —Ver. 46. ἀγοράσας, having purchased linen ; therefore purchases could be made. This word, and the reason given for Joseph’s haste (ver. 42), have, not with- out a show of reason, been regarded as unintentional evidence in favour of the Johannine Chronology of the Passion. So Meyer, Weiss, and Holtzmann.— καθελὼν;: καθαιρεῖν was the technical term for taking down from the cross. Proofs in Elsner, Raphel, Kypke, and: Loesner.—évelAnoev: hereonly in N. T.— ἐν µμνηµείῳ (uvypart, SB): no indication in Mk. as in Mt. that it was new, and Joseph’s own.—Ver. 47. τέθειται: from the perfect Meyer and Weiss infer that the women were not present at the burial, but simply approached and took note where Jesus lay after burial. Schanz dissents, and refers to the καὶ before ὅτε in ver. 41 in some MSS., as proving that they had come to render the last office to Jesus.