and sat down there to keep watch over him.
Now when the army-captain and his men who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were dreadfully afraid; they said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"
Pilate was surprised that he was dead already; he summoned the captain and asked if he had been dead some time,
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."
They also put over his head his charge in writing, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.