Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 15:44 in context
Mark 15:41–47
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who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
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When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
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Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
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Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
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When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
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He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
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Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
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