Bible Verses About Centurion: A commander of one hundred soldiers in the Roman army

Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead, so he summoned the officer and asked him if he had been dead awhile.

After he had gotten confirmation from the officer that Yeshua was dead, he granted Yosef the corpse.

But as they were stretching him out with thongs to be flogged, Sha’ul said to the captain standing by, “Is it legal for you to whip a man who is a Roman citizen and hasn’t even had a trial?”

When the captain heard that, he went and reported it to the commander, “Do you realize what you’re doing? This man is a Roman citizen!”