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The Descent from the Cross (Greek: Ἀποκαθήλωσις, Apokathelosis), or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion (John 19, John 19:38–42). The subject became popular in Byzantine art in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The Descent from the Cross is the thirteenth Station of the Cross, and is also the sixth of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.