KJV King James Version
And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling [unto him] the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
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Mark 15:44
And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling [unto him] the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead, so he summoned the centurion to ask if this was so.
WEB World English Bible
Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
ASV American Standard Version
And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Pilate wondered if he were already dead, and having called near the centurion, did question him if he were long dead,
Surrounding context — Mark 15
41 (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.
42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
43 Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling [unto him] the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
45 And when he knew [it] of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary [the mother] of Joses beheld where he was laid.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoδὲG1161 · dethenΠιλᾶτοςG4091 · PilatosPilateἐθαύμασενG2296 · thaumazōto marvelεἰG1487 · eiifἤδηG2235 · ēdēalreadyτέθνηκεν,G2348 · thnēskōto die/be deadκαὶG2532 · kaiandπροσκαλεσάμενοςG4341 · proskaleōto call to/summonτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoκεντυρίωναG2760 · kenturiōncenturionἐπηρώτησενG1905 · eperōtaōto questionαὐτὸνG846 · autosit/s/heεἰG1487 · eiifπάλαιG3819 · palaiof oldἀπέθανεν.G599 · apothnēskōto die
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