Mark 15:44
“And Pilate marueiled if he were already dead, and calling vnto him the Centurion, hee asked him whether hee had beene any while dead.”
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Mark 15:44 Context
42¶ And now when the euen was come, (because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath) 43Ioseph of Arimathea, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdome of God, came, and went in boldly vnto Pilate, and craued the body of Iesus. 44And Pilate marueiled if he were already dead, and calling vnto him the Centurion, hee asked him whether hee had beene any while dead. 45And when he knew it of the Centurion, he gaue the body to Ioseph. 46And hee bought fine linnen, and tooke him downe, and wrapped him in the linnen, and laide him in a sepulchre, which was hewen out of a rocke, and rolled a stone vnto the doore of the sepulchre.
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And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling [unto him] the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
- King James Version
Pilate wondered if He was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He was already dead.
- New American Standard Version (1995)