Matthew 27:57-58 – When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
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Jesus’ tomb location was well-known. Some 700 years before Jesus was born, God promised that Jesus would be assigned a grave “with a rich man in his death.” (Isaiah 53:9) This was incredibly unlikely, because Jesus was a very poor man who could not have afforded an expensive burial plot.
This prophecy was fulfilled when, “a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph…was a disciple of Jesus…And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away” (Matthew 27:57-60). Jesus’ tomb was easy to find because it belonged to a well-known affluent man who was still alive and legally owned it.
It was prophesied that Jesus would be buried in a rich man’s grave in Isaiah 53 and this then happened in Matthew 27. What other prophecies have you noticed in the Bible that have come to pass?
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