Pilate was marveled to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed, “Truly I tell y’all, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel.
Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Empire of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
When he was informed by the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.