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Mk 15:43a ... Having-come Joseph, the-one from Arimathea, a-well-figured council-member, ...

Verse 43 has 6 phrases and 27 narrator words. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd phrases have these 7 words ... elthōn Iōsēf, ho apo Arimathaias, eusxēmōn bouleutēs (Having-come Joseph, the-one from Arimethea, a-well-figured council-member, ...).

Diagram 1: The 7 words are bottom up. The name Iōsēf in Greek means "let him add" and in Hebrew it means "Jehovah has added." Joseph has two signs. One is of a man with a face having a circumference of 1480 units (see verse 43b). The second is his vesica form, also having a combined circumference of 1480 units.

Diagram 2: Joseph is a member of the Great Sanhedrin, a religious assembly of 71 sages who meet in the "Chamber of Hewn Stones" in the Temple in Jerusalem, daily in the daytime, but not on the Sabbath, festivals, or festival eves. After 3 pm, Joseph was free from his official duties and available to make sure Jesus was buried before sundown (6 pm). The diagram shows that 70 christ sized "members" (they all overlap) virtually fill the "Chamber of Stones." That makes Josef the seventy first, a well-figured (euschēmōn, ie. prominent) member of the Council.

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