Mark 15:44 (WEB)
Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
Fathers and councils · 16
Theodoret of Cyrus
“And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph, and he brought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped Him in the linen, and laid Him in a sepulchre,” and so on.” — editor's note: Mark xv. 42–46
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Augustine of Hippo
“And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.”” — editor's note: Mark xv. 42–45.
Read the whole comment“But He was buried, “now when the even was come,” as the words of the evangelist express it; which means, at the end of the day.” — editor's note: Mark xv. 42–46
Read the whole comment“And it was this also, at which, as we read, Pilate marvelled, when the body of the Lord was asked of him for burial.” — editor's note: Mark xv. 37, 39, 43, 44, and John xix. 30–34
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John Chrysostom
“Mark at any rate saith, that “Pilate marvelled if He were already dead:”and that the centurion for this cause above all believed, because He died with power.” — editor's note: Mark xv. 44.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
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After the Passion and Death of Christ, the Evangelist relates His burial, saying, “And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathaea.”
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What is called “parasceue” in Greek, is in Latin “praeparatio”; by which name those Jews, who lived amongst Greeks, used to call the sixth day of the week, because on that day they used to prepare what was necessary…
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It it interpreted, “taking down,” of which was Joseph, who came to take down the body of Christ from the cross. There follows: “Came and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.”
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He was bold with a praiseworthy boldness; for he did not consider within himself, I shall fall from my rich estate, and I shall be expelled by the Jews, if I beg for the body of Him, who was condemned as a…
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But it was not an obscure person, nor a man of mean rank, who could come to the governor and obtain the body. There follows: “And he brought fine linen, and took Him down, and wrapped Him in the linen.”
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Burying the precious body preciously; for being a disciple of our Lord, he knew how greatly the Lord’s body ought to be honoured.
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By this however, according to a spiritual meaning, we may understand that the body of the Lord should not be wrapped in gold or gems, or silk, but in a clean linen cloth. Hence it became a custom in the Church that…
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By the burial of Christ we rise again, by His going down into hell we mount up into heaven; here is found the honey in the mouth of the dead lion.
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Let us too imitate Joseph, taking to ourselves the body of Christ by Unity, and let us place it in a sepulchre, hewn out of the rock, that is, in a soul recollected, never forgetful of God; for this is a soul hewn…
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We read in Luke, that His acquaintances and the women who had followed Him stood afar off. When these then who were known to Jesus returned home after the burial of His body, the women alone, who were bound to Him…
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These things also fit the Jewish people, which finally is believing, which is ennobled by faith to become the child of Abraham. It lays aside its despair, it waits for the kingdom of God, it goes in to the…
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.23.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.23.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.23.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.23.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 15:42–47 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.23.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.23.