Mark 15:43
“Ioseph of Arimathea, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdome of God, came, and went in boldly vnto Pilate, and craued the body of Iesus.”
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Mark 15:43 Context
41Who also when hee was in Galile, followed him, and ministred vnto him, and many other women which came vp with him vnto Hierusalem. 42¶ And now when the euen was come, (because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath) 43Ioseph of Arimathea, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdome of God, came, and went in boldly vnto Pilate, and craued the body of Iesus. 44And Pilate marueiled if he were already dead, and calling vnto him the Centurion, hee asked him whether hee had beene any while dead. 45And when he knew it of the Centurion, he gaue the body to Ioseph.
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Joseph 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.
- King James Version
Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent member of the Council, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
- New American Standard Version (1995)