Charles Spurgeon Commentary Mark 15:44-46

"And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he learned it of the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph. And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb." — Mark 15:44-46 (ASV)

And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

This very centurion, who had declared that Jesus was the Son of God, now came forward to bear witness that he had seen him die; and then Pilate told Joseph that he might go and take the body.