World English Bible
Mark 15:43
“Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.”
Verse in context — Mark 15
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who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
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When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
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Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
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Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
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When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
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