'Already' in the Bible

When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is an isolated place and it is already very late.

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.

Now when evening had already come, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. He called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.