Luke 2:25

“Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers; you shall listen to him.

Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent Council member, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

And at that very moment she came up and began giving thanks to God, and continued to speak of Him to all those who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

(he had not consented to their counsel and action), a man from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God;

“Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.