It might be easy to criticize Joseph and Nicodemus for seeming to show up late to the party. Weren’t they Jewish leaders? Couldn’t they have done something to stop all of this before doing the work of gravediggers? Laying aside the fact that all of the crucifixion events were fulfilling scripture, many of us have probably been in their place. Maybe we couldn’t change the way things were, but we could be faithful in the places available to us.