We've come full cycle now. We started with a young woman who poured $10,000 worth of oil on the Master's head, and now we come to Joseph. A faithful Jew from Arimathea, probably a man who had made his fortune in Jerusalem, Joseph was a member of the Sanhedrin and one who had some feeling for the Savior. What better person from whose view to see the resurrection?

Dramatic Monologue: Joseph Of Arimathea

I had hoped so much in Jesus.

I knew the promise of the coming Messiah. How many times had I prayed with the psalmist, "The Lord loves those who hate evil; he preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked (Psalm 97:10)."

Why didn't it happen that way for Jesus? If he was the Messiah, the one whom Daniel said would come on clouds of glory, why didn't it ha…