Mark 15:44

But Pilatos wondered if he were now dead; and he called the centurion and asked him whether before the time he was dead:

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

43came Jauseph, he who was from Rometha, an honourable counsellor, who also himself waited for the kingdom of Aloha. And he took courage, and went in to Pilatos and requested the body of Jeshu.

45and when he had learned, he gave the body to Jauseph.

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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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