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Joseph went boldly to Pilate, and begged from him the body of Jesus. Pilate, after learning that Christ was really dead, granted this request.

Healing for Soul and Body

Jesus did not ignore the claims of the body. He had respect for the physical condition of man, and went about healing the sick and restoring their faculties to those suffering from their loss....

Satan tempts men to indulgence, because this weakens the body and beclouds the mind. Then he knows that he can the more easily deceive and destroy them.

And Lazarus, whose body had seen corruption in the grave, but who was now enjoying the strength of glorious manhood, was with the happy throng that escorted the Saviour to Jerusalem.

Gently and reverently they, with their own hands, removed the body of Christ from the cross. Their tears of sympathy fell fast, as they looked upon His bruised and torn form.

They remembered that He had said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” ( John 2:19 ), and they knew that He was speaking of His own body.

“A body You have prepared for Me. ... ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’” Hebrews 10:5-7

The Jews did not recognize the Lord’s body in the symbol of the Passover lamb. The words of Christ taught the same truth, but the people still did not recognize it.

When the king heard this terrifying message, “he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.