45And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
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He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being 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 him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-47)We are here attending the funeral of our Lord Jesus, a solemn, mournful funeral. O that we may by grace be planted in the likeness of it! Observe, I. How the body of Christ was begged . It was, as the dead bodies of malefactors are, at the disposal of the government. Those that hurried him to the cross, designed that he should make his grave with the wicked ; but God designed he should make it wit…
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