Mark 15:45 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 15:45

When Pilate had confirmed it with the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And when he learned it of the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph.

KJV

And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

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Commentary

1 voice

Theophylact of Ohrid

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (1107)

It goes on: And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead. For he thought that He should continue long alive upon the cross, as also the thieves used to live long, upon the instrument of their execution. It goes on: And calling unto him the centurion, he asked him if he had been any while dead; that is, before the time when other executed persons usually died. There follows: And when he knew it of the centurion, (that is, that He was dead,) he gave the body to Joseph.

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

When he knew it of the centurion - Being informed by the centurion of the fact that he was dead. The centurion had charge of the soldiers who watched him, and could therefore give correct information.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1789: “Joseph of Arimathaea” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1884)

IT was a very dark day with the Church of God and with the cause of Christ, for the Lord Jesus was dead, and so the sun of their souls had set. "All the disciples forsook Him, and fled." "You shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave Me alone," were the sad words of Jesus—and they had come true. He was dead upon the Cross and His enemies hoped that that was the end of Him—while even His friends feared that it was so.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

The death of our Lord Jesus Christ is the most important fact in Christianity. On it depend the hopes of all saved sinners both for time and eternity. We need not therefore to be surprised to find the reality of His death carefully placed beyond dispute. Three kinds of witnesses to the fact are brought before us in the verses we have now read. The Roman centurion, who stood near the cross, — the women, who followed our Lord from Galilee to Jerusalem, — the disciples, who buried Him. All were all witnesses that Jesus really died.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
γνοὺς	gnous	having known [it]	G1097 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
κεντυρίωνος	kenturiōnos	centurion	G2760 →
ἐδωρήσατο	edōrēsato	He granted	G1433 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πτῶμα	ptōma	body	G4430 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰωσήφ.	Iōsēph	to Joseph.	G2501 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Mark 15:39
When the centurion standing there in front of Jesus saw how He had breathed His last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
leads to
- Luke 23:47–48
  When the centurion saw what had happened, he gave glory to God, saying, “Surely this was a righteous man.”
- Matthew 27:54
  When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
- Matthew 27:43
  He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
- Acts 10:1
  At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.
- Matthew 8:5–10
  When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came and pleaded with Him,
Through
John 19:38
Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came…
leads to
- Mark 15:42–47
  Now it was already evening. Since it was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath),
- Matthew 27:57–61
  When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus.
Through
Matthew 27:58
He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.
leads to
- Mark 15:44–46
  Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead, so he summoned the centurion to ask if this was so.

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Where the connections lead

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About Mark