“Joseph of Arima-thea came before Pilate seeking the body of Jesus, beseeching him, saying; ‘Give me this stranger (dos moi touton ton xenon), who from infancy guested (xenisthenta) in the world as a stranger, he cried, Give me this stranger, whom His own people have hated and slain as a stranger, Give me this stranger, at the sight of whose strange death I am estranged (xenothenta) Give me this stranger, who gave hospitality (xenizein) to the poor and the stranger….”
Office of the Greek Orthodox Matins of Good Friday
