Acts 13:29. All that was written of him. That is, the various indignities predicted in those prophecies which speak of the sufferings of Messiah. Compare, for instance, Psalms 22; Isaiah 53; Zechariah 11:12-13; Zechariah 12:10 to Zechariah 13:7.

They took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. The burial and probably the act of taking the body from the cross, was actually performed by the hands of friends, like Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea; but in Paul's rapid summary of the terrible facts, it was not judged necessary to make any distinction between the various agents in the transaction; besides which, to the le tter even the statement is strictly accurate. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus were both of them rulers.

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