Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Asked for (hthsato). First aorist middle (indirect) indicative as in Mark 15:43; Matthew 27:58. The middle voice shows that Joseph of Arimathea asked the body of Jesus as a personal favour.
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