Matthew 27:58

Christian Standard Bible ®

He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body. Then Pilate ordered that it be released.

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Iesus: then Pilate commanded the body to be deliuered.

King James Version
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

English Standard Version
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

New American Standard Bible
This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

New Century Version
Joseph went to Pilate and asked to have Jesus' body. So Pilate gave orders for the soldiers to give it to Joseph.

Amplified Bible
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus [so that he might bury Him], and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Legacy Standard Bible
This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Berean Standard Bible
He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

Contemporary English Version
went and asked for Jesus' body. Pilate gave orders for it to be given to Joseph,

Complete Jewish Bible
He approached Pilate and asked for Yeshua's body, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Darby Translation
*He*, going to Pilate, begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

Easy-to-Read Version
He went to Pilate and asked to have Jesus' body. Pilate gave orders for the soldiers to give Jesus' body to him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He went to Pilate, & asked ye body of Iesus. Then Pilate commanded ye body to be deliuered.

George Lamsa Translation
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. And Pilate commanded that the body should be given to him.

Good News Translation
He went into the presence of Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate gave orders for the body to be given to Joseph.

Lexham English Bible
This man approached Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Literal Translation
coming up to Pilate, this one asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given.

American Standard Version
this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded it to be given up.

Bible in Basic English
This man went in to Pilate, and made a request for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate gave orders for it to be given to him.

Hebrew Names Version
This man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Yeshua. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

International Standard Version
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered it to be handed over.

Etheridge Translation
This went unto Pilatos, and begged the body of Jeshu. And Pilatos commanded that the body should be given to him.

Murdock Translation
This man went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And Pilate directed the body to be given him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Iesus. Then Pilate comaunded the body to be delyuered.

English Revised Version
this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded it to be given up.

World English Bible
This man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
He going to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus: then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

Weymouth's New Testament
He went to Pilate and begged to have the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He wente to Pilat, and axide the bodi of Jhesu.

Update Bible Version
this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded it to be given up.

Webster's Bible Translation
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

New English Translation
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

New King James Version
This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given to him.

New Living Translation
went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body. And Pilate issued an order to release it to him.

New Life Bible
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate said that the body should be given to him.

New Revised Standard
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The same, going unto Pilate, claimed the body of Jesus. Then, Pilate commanded it to be given up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He went to Pilate and asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded that the body should be delivered.

Revised Standard Version
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
He went to Pilate and begged the body of Iesus. Then Pilate commaunded the body to be delivered.

Young's Literal Translation
he having gone near to Pilate, asked for himself the body of Jesus; then Pilate commanded the body to be given back.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He wete vnto Pylate, and axed the body of Iesus. Then commaunded Pylate that the body shulde be geue him.

Mace New Testament (1729)
went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus; which Pilate ordered to be delivered to him.

Simplified Cowboy Version
went to Pilate and asked for Jesus's body. Pilate agreed and gave the order.

Contextual Overview

⁵⁷When it was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. ⁵⁸He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body. Then Pilate ordered that it be released. ⁵⁹So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in clean, fine linen, ⁶⁰and placed it in his new tomb, which he had cut into the rock. He left after rolling a great stone against the entrance of the tomb. ⁶¹Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were seated there, facing the tomb. ⁶²The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate ⁶³and said, “Sir, we remember that while this deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ ⁶⁴So give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come, steal him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.” ⁶⁵“You have a guard of soldiers,” Pilate told them. “Go and make it as secure as you know how.” ⁶⁶They went and secured the tomb by setting a seal on the stone and placing the guard.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mark 15:44-46, Luke 23:52, Luke 23:53

Reciprocal: Isaiah 26:19 - my dead Matthew 14:12 - took Mark 15:45 - he gave Luke 23:50 - there

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He went to Pilate,.... To his house where he lived, and went in, as Mark says, Mark 15:43, boldly; not being ashamed of Christ crucified, or afraid to own him, and show his respect to him as dead, though he knew he should incur the displeasure, reproach, and persecution of the Jews:

and begged the body of Jesus; which could not be taken down and interred, without the leave of the Roman governor; and which was generally granted to the friends of the deceased, when asked; otherwise they were buried in places l appointed for such persons;

Mark 15:43- :. And this would have been the case of Christ, had not Joseph craved his body; and which he did, to prevent its being abused by the Jews, and interred in such an ignominious manner:

then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered; to Joseph, after he had understood by the centurion that Jesus was dead, which he at first could not tell how to believe, and marvelled at it,

Mark 15:44. Joseph might the more easily obtain his request, as he was a person of character and riches; and because Pilate himself had a good opinion of Jesus, and of his innocence, as well as his wife was much in his favour: so that Joseph had no difficulty to obtain the body of Christ; but as soon as he asked, he had the favour granted, and orders were given to the centurion and his soldiers, to deliver it to him.

l See Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 6. sect. 5, 6. Maimon. Hilch. Sanhedrin, c. 14. sect. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He went to Pilate - Because no one had a right to remove the body but by authority of the magistrate. Jesus was condemned to be crucified, usually a long and most bitter death, and in common cases it would have been unlawful to have removed the body so soon.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 58. Begged the body — That he might bury it honourably otherwise, by the Jewish customs, he would have either been burned, or buried in the common place appointed for executed criminals.