Mark 15:45

And when he had understood it by the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

44But Pilate wondered that he should be already dead. And sending for the centurion, he asked him if he were already dead.

46And Joseph buying fine linen, and taking him down, wrapped him up in the fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewed out of a rock. And he rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre.

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Cross References

Matthew 27:58He went to Pilate, and asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded that the body should be delivered.

John 19:38And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews) besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

Matthew Henry on Mark 15:43-47

The Burial of Christ; The Women at the Sepulchre. 42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathæa, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. 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. 45 And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. 46… Read the whole commentary →

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