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This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.
Luke 23:52 · Bible in Basic English
This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.
This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
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49 And all his friends and the women who came with him from Galilee, were waiting at a distance, watching these things.
50 Now there was a man named Joseph, a man of authority and a good and upright man
51 (He had not given his approval to their decision or their acts), of Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God:
52 This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.
53 And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.
54 Now it was the day of making ready and the Sabbath was coming on.
55 And the women who had come with him from Galilee went after him and saw the place and how his body had been put to rest;
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