ἀγοράσας, having purchased linen; therefore purchases could be made. This word, and the reason given for Joseph's haste (Mark 15:42), have, not without 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. ἐνείλησεν : here only in N.T. ἐν μνημείῳ (μνήματι, [161] [162]): no indication in Mk. as in Mt. that it was new, and Joseph's own.

[161] Codex Sinaiticus (sæc. iv.), now at St. Petersburg, published in facsimile type by its discoverer, Tischendorf, in 1862.

[162] Codex Vaticanus (sæc. iv.), published in photographic facsimile in 1889 under the care of the Abbate Cozza-Luzi.

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