"And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling {unto him} the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any…" — Mark 15:44

Mark 15:44 · KJV

“And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling {unto him} the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.”

— Mark 15:44

Verse 43

Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

Verse 45

And when he knew {it} of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

Mark 15 — Context

And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling {unto him} the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

And when he knew {it} of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.

Cross References

John 19:31-37

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and {that} they might be taken away.