Arimathea

The hometown of the Joseph who obtained Jesus’s crucified body and buried it in his own tomb (Matthew 27:57; Mark 15:43; John 19:38). The town’s location is unknown. It may be the same as the hill town of Ramathaim-zophim, the prophet Samuel’s home (1 Samuel 1:1), about 8 miles (12.9 kilometers) northwest of Jerusalem. Luke described the place as a Jewish town, and Joseph was himself a Jewish official (Luke 23:50).