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Mark 15:44
Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
Mark 15:44 · World English Bible
Mark 15:44 in other translations
And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead, so he summoned the centurion to ask if this was so.
Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
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In context
41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
42 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
43 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.
44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
45 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
46 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.
47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
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