Matthew 27:58

World English Bible (2000)

This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

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  • Mark 15:44-46 : 44 Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. 45 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. 46 He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
  • Luke 23:52-53 : 52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. 53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.

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  • Luke 23:51-55
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    51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:

    52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.

    53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.

    54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

    55 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.

  • John 19:38-42
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    85%

    38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.

    39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.

    40 So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

    41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

    42 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

  • Mark 15:42-47
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    42 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

    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.

    44 Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.

    45 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

    46 He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

    47 Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.

  • Matt 27:59-60
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    82%

    59 Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

    60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

  • Matt 27:57
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    57 When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus' disciple came.

  • Matt 14:12
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    12 His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.

  • Mark 6:29
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    29 When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.

  • Matt 27:62-64
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    62 Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

    63 saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'

    64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

  • John 19:31
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    31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

  • Acts 13:28-30
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    28 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

    29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

    30 But God raised him from the dead,

  • Matt 27:2
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    2 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

  • John 19:16
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    16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

  • Matt 27:17
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    17 When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"

  • Matt 27:26-27
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    26 Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

    27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.

  • Matt 27:49-50
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    49 The rest said, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to save him."

    50 Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

  • Luke 23:24-25
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    24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

    25 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

  • John 20:15
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    15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."

  • Mark 15:1
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    1 Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

  • Luke 23:46
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    46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.

  • John 18:29
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    29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

  • Matt 28:13
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    13 saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

  • Mark 15:37
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    37 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

  • John 11:44
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    44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."

  • John 11:34
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    34 and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

  • Matt 27:20
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    20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

  • Mark 15:15
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    15 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

  • John 11:17
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    17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

  • Matt 27:22
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    22 Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"

  • Mark 16:6
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    6 He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!