Given the understandable hostility of the earliest Christians toward the Sanhedrin, whom they felt were largely responsible for their Master’s death, it is unlikely that Jesus’ followers would have invented a tradition about a member of the Sanhedrin using his own tomb to provide Jesus with a respectable burial.
Kwa kuzingatia uadui unaoeleweka wa Wakristo wa mapema zaidi dhidi ya Sanhedrini, ambao walihisi kwamba ndio waliosababisha kifo cha Bwana wao, haielekei kwamba wafuasi wa Yesu wangebuni mapokeo kuhusu mshiriki wa Sanhedrini kutumia kaburi lake mwenyewe ili kumpa Yesu mahali pa kuzaliwa. mazishi ya heshima.