Who was Joseph of arimathea supposedly reladted to and how?

Answer 1

Tradition has it that Joseph was related to Mary, but this is pure invention, or, at the very least, speculation. All four gospels record that Jesus was laid in Joseph's own tomb that he had prepared for his own burial one day. They also record that he was a just and good man, and was from the Jewish city of Arimathea (probably the city once called Ramleh 1 Sam 19), he was a member of the Jewish Council (the Sanhedrin) and was a secret follower of Jesus - secret for fear of the other council members. Other than that little is known of Joseph. There are many other apocryphal accounts that mention Joseph but their providence is rather suspect. Tradition has it that he even came to the UK bringing with him a young Jesus as a boy - on his travels as a merchant to Glastonbury, in the south-west of the country. Whilst the Romans did have lead mines near Glastonbury, and did export lead to other parts of the empire including Judaea, and whilst the great theologian Tertullian wrote that Christianity was already in England in the first Century, all the evidence of Joseph coming to the UK, being a merchant, and even related to jesus, is all speculation and has no real basis in scripture.