Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
[So], Joseph went to [governor] Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
New American Standard Bible
this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
King James Version
This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Holman Bible
He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.
International Standard Version
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
A Conservative Version
This man having gone to Pilate, requested the body of Jesus.
American Standard Version
this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
Amplified
this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Anderson New Testament
this man came to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
Bible in Basic English
This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.
Common New Testament
Then he took it down and wrapped it in linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb that was hewn out of the rock, where no one had ever yet been laid.
Daniel Mace New Testament
this very man went to Pilate, and begg'd the body of Jesus.
Darby Translation
he having gone to Pilate begged the body of Jesus;
Godbey New Testament
He having come to Pilate, begged the body of Jesus.
Goodspeed New Testament
He went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.
John Wesley New Testament
This man going to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus.
Julia Smith Translation
The same having come to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus.
King James 2000
This man went unto Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
Lexham Expanded Bible
This man approached Pilate [and] asked for the body of Jesus.
Modern King James verseion
This man went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Moffatt New Testament
This Joseph went to Pilate and asked him for the body of Jesus.
Montgomery New Testament
This man went to Pilate, and begged for the body of Jesus.
NET Bible
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
New Heart English Bible
this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
Noyes New Testament
this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
Sawyer New Testament
This man coming to Pilate asked for the body of Jesus;
The Emphasized Bible
the same, going unto Pilate, claimed the body of Jesus.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
He went in to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Twentieth Century New Testament
He now went to see Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus;
Webster
This man went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Weymouth New Testament
and now he went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Williams New Testament
He went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.
World English Bible
this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
Worrell New Testament
the same, going to Pilate, asked for the body of Jesus.
Worsley New Testament
he came to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus:
Youngs Literal Translation
he, having gone near to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus,
Themes
Jesus Christ » History of » Taken down from the cross and buried (just outside jerusalem)
Joseph » Of arimathaea » Begs for the body of jesus for burial in his own tomb
Pontius pilate » Allows joseph of arimathaea to take jesus' body
Topics
Interlinear
Houtos
Proserchomai
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 23:52
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus Is Buried
51 (and who had not agreed with the decision and action of the [Jewish] Council). He was expecting the kingdom of God [to appear soon]. 52 [So], Joseph went to [governor] Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 53 [Upon receiving permission] he took it down [from the cross] and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a grave site, cut out of [a ledge of] rock, where no one had ever been buried.
Phrases
Cross References
John 19:38-42
After this happened, one of Jesus' disciples (but secretly, for fear of the Jews), named Joseph from Arimathaea, asked Pilate if he could remove Jesus' body [from the cross]. Pilate granted him permission, so he went and removed the body from the cross.