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Member of the
Sanhedrin in Israel during the life of Jesus. He was a secret disciple of
Christ, meeting him by night to avoid the wrath of the other members of the
Sanhedrin, and eventually spoke out to that body to remind them that Jesus
had a right to a hearing. With Saint Joseph of Arimathea he prepared Jesus'
body and placed him in the tomb. There was an apocryphal "gospel" that was
purported to have been written by him; it is sometimes entitled the Acts of
Pilate. Tradition says he was a martyr, though no details have survived.
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