Mark 15:44
“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 now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
Joseph of Arimathea, 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
“And sitting down they watched him there;”
“He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.”
“And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.”
“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.”
“And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.”