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Joseph of Arimathea and Pilate
How Joseph of Arimathea and Pilate are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Joseph of Arimathea and Pilate met.
Joseph of Arimathea went in boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate had the centurion confirm that Jesus was dead, then gave it to him.
went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus
Mark 15:43, King James Version
he gave the body to Joseph
Mark 15:45, King James Version
Where they cross: Mark 15:43-45
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Mark 15:43-45
43Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
44And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
45And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
King James Version