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

And he begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

And all the demons begged him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.