Joseph of Arimathea

From The Red Pill

Joseph of Arimathea definitively appears in the Bible once, when Jesus is being taken down from the cross to be buried before the Sabbath. According to the New Testament, Joseph was a wealthy man who also had some modicum of influence (perhaps due to his wealth), enough to get Jesus taken down from the cross instead of being posted there for the weekend.

Here is where the record ends and conspiracy begins. According to many legends, the same Joseph of Arimathea was also the host of the Last Supper and as such came into possession of the Holy Grail, or the cup (now called a chalice, at least in the Roman Catholic tradition), that Jesus used and passed on to his disciples at the Last Supper. The same legends also allege that Joseph left the area and went to England (which, at the time, was not yet under the rule of Rome at the supposed year of Jesus' death and resurrection, so how this could have happened without any mishap has yet to be explained - in fact, how Joseph of Arimathea, as a Christian, one of the first Catholics, made it that far without being accosted or harassed has also yet to be explained). Allegedly, it is in England that Joseph of Arimathea hid the physical Holy Grail. Other legends claim that the Holy Grail is not actually the literal cup of Christ used at the Last Supper, but something entirely different, depending on the particular legend.