Mark 15:42-44

21st Century King James Version

⁴² And now when the evening had come, because it was the Preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

⁴³ Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable council member who also was waiting for the Kingdom of God, came and went in boldly unto Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

⁴⁴ And Pilate wondered if He were already dead; and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether He had been any while dead.