What it means to be a secret disciple of Jesus Christ. There are a lot of people that try to establish what that means abut Jesus declared what it was so therefore what you think doesn't matter. Once you become born again there is a change that takes place on the inside. There were two men at the tomb of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathaea. This man was a secret disciple of Christ because he was afraid of the Jews but yet believed in Him. The other was Nicodemus which the same man that Jesus spoke with secretly about being born again John 3. But the second time we see Nicodemus was not at night but during the day. There are two things that changed these men and that was the cross, the death of Jesus. Jesus isn't after your flesh to save but after your eternal soul. So where we're did these men obtain their courage? Once they realized that Jesus Christ was God incarnated during His crucifixion, that changed everything for them. Joseph's tomb was cut from solid rock therefore taking a long time and was surely of great value. No one had been buried there prior to Jesus. The Jews wanted guards to makes sure the body went in and the body was to stay put.