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.
Mark 15:44 in other translations
| BSB | 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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| WEB | Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. |
| ASV | 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 | And Pilate wondered if he were already dead, and having called near the centurion, did question him if he were long dead, |
| DARBY | And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and having called to him the centurion, he inquired of him if he had long died. |
| BBE | And Pilate was surprised that he was dead; and, sending for the captain, he put a question to see if he had been dead for long. |
| Webster | And Pilate wondered if he was already dead: and calling the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. |
What does Mark 15:44 mean?
Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 15:42-47
We are here attending the burial of our Lord Jesus. Oh that we may by grace be planted in the likeness of it! Joseph of Arimathea was one who waited for the kingdom of God. Those who hope for a share in its privileges, must own Christ's cause, when it seems to be crushed. This man God raised up for his service. There was a special providence, that Pilate should be so strict in his inquiry, that there might be no…
Mark 15:44 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Mark 15:44
- John 19:31-37
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. …
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Context
- Mark 15:43
Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
- 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.
- Mark 15:45
And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
Mark 15:44 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y Pilato se maravilló que ya fuese muerto; y haciendo venir al centurión, preguntóle si era ya muerto. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Pilate s’étonna, ayant peine à croire qu’il soit déjà mort; et ayant appelé le centurion, il lui demanda s’il y avait longtemps qu’il était mort. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Pilatus aber wunderte sich, daß er schon gestorben sei; und er rief den Hauptmann herzu und fragte ihn, ob er schon lange gestorben sei. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Pilatus autem mirabatur si jam obiisset. Et accersito centurione, interrogavit eum si jam mortuus esset. |