Mark 15:45

45 And [when he] learned of [it] from the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph.

Mark 15:45 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 15:45

And when he knew it of the centurion
Who might inform him of his giving up the ghost after he had cried with a loud voice, which so much affected him; and how he was found to be really dead when they came to break the legs of the malefactors; and how that one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, from whence flowed blood and water; so that there was no room to doubt of his being really dead; with which Pilate being satisfied,

he gave the body to Joseph;
ordered it to be given to him; gave him leave to take it down from the cross, and inter it.

Mark 15:45 In-Context

43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the council who was also himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came acting courageously [and] went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

44 And Pilate was surprised that he was already dead, and summoning the centurion, asked him whether he had died already.

45 And [when he] learned of [it] from the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph.

46 And [after] purchasing a linen cloth [and] taking him down, he wrapped [him] in the linen cloth and placed him in a tomb that had been cut from the rock. And he rolled a stone over the entrance of the tomb.

47 Now Mary Magdalene and Mary the [mother] of Joses saw where he was placed.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("learned of") which is understood as temporal
• [b]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation