however, a favourable opportunity happen'd for her, upon Herod's making an entertainment the birth-night, for all the great officers of the court, and army, and persons of the first distinction in Galilee.

Now when the army-captain who stood facing him saw that he expired in this way, he said, "This man was certainly a son of God."

But Pilate wondered whether he were already dead. So he summoned the army captain, and inquired if he had been any time dead;

and when he learned the fact from the army captain he gave the body to Joseph.