We also see mention of Jesus’ "mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas" (John 19:25 John 19:25Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.American King James Version×). A Sermon on Mark 15:42-47 42 When evening had come, and since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. The parents of Joseph are not known for postitive. The first Greek word here can mean noble in character or, evidently, in birth: "The women who are incited against [the apostle] Paul in Acts 13:50 Acts 13:50But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.American King James Version×are ‘prominent [euschemon],’ as are those in Acts 17:12 Acts 17:12Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.American King James Version×. He seems to be synonymous with the Helias le Grose (Heli the Great) of the medieval romances. There is a wide variance of scholarly opinion on this subject, however, and a good deal of doubt exists as to whether Joseph ever came to Britain at all, for any purpose. 9, Online Edition, 1999, www.newadvent.org/cathen). Bran appears in genealogies that many consider generally legitimate. He was believed to be a rich tin merchant who sailed to Britain shortly after the resurrection of Jesus and settled in Southwest England in a village called Glastonbury. He elsewhere said that whoever drank His "blood" would have eternal life. We may also notice that Joseph’s religious commission appears to have obtained substantial favor with the British authorities: "King Arviragus [whichever king he actually was] is recorded as having granted to Joseph and his followers, ‘twelve hides’ of land (about 1900 acres), tax free, in ‘Ynis-witrin’ ["Isle of Glass"—i.e., Glastonbury] . Not on his being a disciple, for in the same context we read that he took pains to conceal this fact out of fear of the Jews. Brown believes that the description of Joseph and his actions in the Gospel of Mark is most likely the true historical account about this man, not the embellished accounts … Rabanus Maurus (AD 766-856), Archbishop of Mayence states in Life of Mary Magdalene that Joseph of Arimathea was sent to Britain, and he goes on to detail who travelled with him as far as France, claiming that he was accompanied by; the two Bethany sisters, Mary and Martha, Lazarus (who was raised from the dead), St. Eutropius, St. Salome, St. Cleon, St. Saturnius, St. Mary Magdalen, Marcella (the maid of the Bethany sisters), St. Maxium or Maximin, St. After all, less than two days previously I had paid fifty silver shekels for that cloth - a very high price, that Nicodemus had chided me for paying, but I wanted only the very best burial shroud for our Master, and had no time to haggle over the purchase. [16] And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. Claudia, the adopted daughter of former emperor Claudius (who died in 54), had been converted—along with her husband Pudens and brother Linus. [56] And his sisters, are they not all with us? It is interesting to note that the year 63, when the land grant to Joseph is supposed to have occurred, came just two years after the rebellion. Not just wealthy—but also quite influential. The skeptical tradition, which reads the various fulfillments of prophecies in the life of Jesus as inventions designed for that purpose, reads Joseph of Arimathea as a meme created to fulfill this prophecy in Isaiah. [8] But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein. Pilate, who was reassured by a centurion that the death had really taken place, allowed Joseph's request. However, when the Catholic "church father" Jerome produced, in the late 300s, the first version of the Vulgate, the earliest Latin translation of the Bible, he rendered the Greek words above as nobilis decurio. Before narrating Joseph's alleged apostolic mission to Glastonbury, The History of that Holy Disciple Joseph of Arimathea, written (circa 1770) by an anonymous author, offers information about his birth from a respected family, his intellectual talents, his first religious inclinations, and—after the crucifixion episode—about a successful expedition to Rome. As it turned out, the face-to-face meeting was not as difficult as Joseph may have imagined. Then some one lifted me up from the place where I had fallen, and poured over me an abundance of water from the head even to the feet, and put round my nostrils the odour of a wonderful ointment, and rubbed my face with the water itself, as if washing me, and kissed me, and said to me, Joseph, fear not; but open thine eyes, and see who it is that speaks to thee. This would make Joseph of Arimathea Mary’s uncle and Jesus’ great uncle. The Greek Septuagint text is not quite the same: And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death; for he practised no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth. knew you not that I must be about my Father's business? Notice this regarding the remains of an old church there: "Glastonbury Abbey, a ruined abbey in Somersetshire, about 6 miles south of Wells, England. I see 3 different husbands for Anna of Arimathea, daughter of Joseph of Arimathea now. Pilate marveled that He was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him if He had been dead for some time. [7] In the first day you shall have an holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein. And he said to me: I am not Elias. . Then I said to him that was speaking to me: Show me, Lord, where I laid thee. 2. Cerdic of Wessex may have had Saxon blood, seeing that Saxons accepted him as a leader; but he seems to have reckoned himself a Briton, because he gave his son a Celtic name too, Cynric" (The Discovery of King Arthur, 1985, pp. According to the startling new claim, Joseph of Arimathea, the man who gospels say donated his own tomb for Jesus’ burial after his crucifixion, may himself be buried in the middle of Cardiff. !NAME:Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet & Cecily de Neville, Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet & Cecily de Neville, Ernst-Friedrich Kraentzler, published by author 1978, Chart 1827, p 393, - - Anna of Arimatha Queen of Britain (Roman), http://www.american-pictures.com/genealogy/persons/per08972.htm#0, 2 Notes for Joseph Arimathea: Joseph of Arimathea, according to the Gospels, was the man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion. 25 translated by Leo Sherley-Price, 1955). Yet travel from the Holy Land to Britain would have been far easier and faster—because the distance could be covered over water by sailing ship and over land by Roman roads, which were well maintained. By some traditions this wealthy relative had become an adoptive father of the family after the death of Mary’s husband Joseph. Most of the apostles had fled anyway. There is some possibility this could be true, as Rachel was a common name, but it also appears to link Joseph to the first “Joseph” in the Old Testament, whose parents were Jacob (Israel) and Rachel (see Genesis 35). If legitimate, this puts the first known historical mention of Joseph at Glastonbury 700 years before the mention generally accepted as first by modern scholarship. The Davidic lineage of Nathan was, it seems, doubly fused with the line of Zerah at the time of Odin. These and other traditions came together to form the document he translates in his above book—attributed in a manuscript from around 1408 to the ninth-century abbot Rabanus Maurus (p. 7), but believed by scholars, including Mycoff, to date from the late 12th century (p. 10).