The Gospel of Mark states that when Joseph asked for Jesus ' body, Pilate was shocked that Jesus was already dead, and he summoned a centurion to confirm this before dispatching the body to Joseph.

C & O president Walter J. Tuohy was summoned back for cross-examination by New York Central attorneys before examiner John Bradford who is hearing the complex case.

The next morning he summoned a group of top Democrats to his private office and broke the news: he would lead the fight to oust Colmer, whom he is said to regard as `` an inferior man ''.

Daniel is summoned and interprets the dream.

David is described as someone renowned for his skill at playing the harp, and consequently summoned to Saul's court to calm his moods.

An Imperial Commission is then summoned who exhume and destroy the body of the vampire on behalf of the ruling Habsburg Monarchy, within whose domains Styria is situated.

Christadelphians are organised into local congregations, that commonly call themselves ecclesias, which is taken from usage in the New Testament and is Greek for gathering of those summoned.

Usually, a short dialogue is attached to each victim, in which Death is summoning him ( or, more rarely, her ) to dance and the summoned is moaning about impending death.

* 1593 – The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.

There are many versions of the game, but the general idea is that " Mary " will appear in the mirror and attempt to harm or kill the person who has summoned her.

* The Darkforce is an unknown, dark substance from another dimension ( known simply as the Darkforce Dimension ) that can be summoned and manipulated in many ways: to create impenetrable darkness, to solidify it in various forms, and ( most notably ) to absorb the " life energy " from living beings ( not all users can use all these effects ).

As early as the thirteenth century, it was held that " the law of nature ... is the ground of all laws " and by the Chancellor and Judges that " it is required by the law of nature that every person, before he can be punish ’ d, ought to be present ; and if absent by contumacy, he ought to be summoned and make default .".

Before Brabantio reaches Othello, news arrives in Venice that the Turks are going to attack Cyprus ; therefore Othello is summoned to advise the senators.

In the first years of the Republic, when warfare was mostly concentrated on raiding, it is uncertain if the full manpower of the legions was summoned at any one time.

Not only “ In the rabbinic literature, the cockcrow is used as general marking of time ”, but also some of the Sages interpreted the " cockcrow " to mean the voice of the Temple officer who summoned all priests, Levites, and Israelites to their duties and used as such because the Hebrew gever was used also to mean a " rooster " in addition to the meaning of " man, strong man ".

Apart from being the individual who anoints David as king, a role Samuel is abruptly summoned to take, he does not appear any further in the text until his own death at his hometown Ramah (, ), where he is buried ( cf.

The development of the British constitution, which is not a codified document, is based on this fusion in the person of the Monarch, who has a formal role to play in the legislature ( Parliament, which is where legal and political sovereignty lies, is the Crown-in-Parliament, and is summoned and dissolved by the Sovereign who must give his or her Royal Assent to all Bills so that they become Acts ), the executive ( the Sovereign appoints all ministers of His / Her Majesty's Government, who govern in the name of the Crown ) and the judiciary ( the Sovereign, as the fount of justice, appoints all senior judges, and all public prosecutions are brought in his or her name ).

This failed when a member of academic staff questioned their right to touch the students and police were summoned who prevailed upon the protesters to leave the building.

The candidate was summoned before a board of three captains and questioned about seamanship, navigation, and discipline.

In September 1853, Manjirō was summoned to Edo ( now known as Tokyo ), questioned by the shogunate government, and made a hatamoto ( a samurai in direct service to the shogun ).

On which, there being everywhere, as may be imagined, terror and consternation, the Archons summoned a general assembly, and there brought in the man and questioned him how he came to know.

Later that year, when Emperor Yang summoned him, he declined based on the reason of illness — a reason that Emperor Yang did not believe, as he questioned Li Yuan's niece, a Consort Wang ( Emperor Yang's concubine ), " Will he die?

Some ministers, who were due to appear before the commission ( e. g. Otto Schily was summoned for 8 July ; or others like Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the Federal Chancellory ), will not be questioned according to today's events.

Empress Dou summoned him and questioned him further to try to ascertain if he was in fact her brother.

All of its members were summoned one by one to the Third Department's headquarters by the Politzeisky Bridge to be questioned.

Then, as Henry was passing through Paris, he summoned him to the War Office and questioned him in the presence of Generals de Boisdeffre, Gonse, and Roget.

Once in control of Samaria, he summoned all of the worshipers of Baal to the capital, slew them (), and destroyed the temple of that deity ().

In some Christian traditions he is said to have been born in " Sychem " ( Shechem ), and to have been the third centurion sent out by Ahaziah against Elijah.

Pilate asks confirmation from the centurion whether Jesus is dead ().

A soldier pierced the side of Jesus with a lance causing blood and water to flow out (), and the centurion informs Pilate that Jesus is dead ().

However, both Icilius and Verginia's father, famed centurion Lucius Verginius, are respected figures and Claudius is forced to legally defend his right to hold Verginia.

Then it is humanity's turn, as represented by Peewee, Kip, Iunio ( a Roman centurion ), and a Neanderthal man.

* Marcus Favonius Facilis, a centurion of Legion XX who died in Britain ( probably at Camulodunum ) and whose tombstone is displayed in Colchester museum.

Prince Edmund is the first man in the dynasty to refer to himself as ' the Black Adder ' ( although in Blackadder: Back and Forth, a centurion in Roman Britain also possesses a similar name ).

As a consequence, it is alleged that Julianus dispatched a centurion to the east with orders to assassinate Niger at Antioch.

The name of the soldier who pierced Christ's side with a longche is not given in the Gospel of John, but in the oldest known references to the legend, the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus appended to late manuscripts of the 4th century Acts of Pilate, the soldier is identified as a centurion and called Longinus ( making the spear's " correct " Latin name Lancea Longini ).

The centurion who kept watch at the tomb is given the name Petronius.

The apocryphal Gospel of Peter, on the other hand, is more detailed, specifying " Petronius the centurion with soldiers to guard the tomb ".

It is almost certain that the most senior centurion of the six would have commanded the entire cohort.

In the French comedy series Kaamelott, Kay is portrayed as a rogue centurion and rival of Arthur named Caius who refused to follow his troops back to Rome and therefore celticized his name and was given knighthood by Arthur to end their rivalry.

The Roman centurion is willing to execute the Pharisees because of their attempt to bribe him, yet Jesus says to let them go, after dividing their plunder: one third to Rome, one-third to the centurion's local needs, and one-third to the poor people of the nearby communities, some of whose children had been kidnapped by the Pharisees, to be sold as slaves.

Expeditus ' typical depiction in artwork is as a young Roman centurion.

The Roman centurion Cornelius of Caesarea Maritima is traditionally considered the first Gentile convert.

Cato is bequeathed an ivory-hilted sword by the chief centurion, who was mortally wounded in the ambush and respected Cato for his tenacity.

As the only surviving centurion, Rider makes contact with the Xandarian Worldmind, a living supercomputer that is the regulator of the Nova Force and caretaker of the entire collective database of Xandarian civilization.

Another variation is called a megaturion ( mega centurion ), which requires players to use 55ml shot glasses to ensure at least 50 ml of beer is consumed per shot.

The last variation is called a half-centurion ( A " gibby ") in which some people elect to only do 50 shots in 100 minutes ( either quitting after 50 minutes or doing one shot every two minutes ), while some of the party do the full centurion.

Picard ultimately refuses, although he is torn about disappointing his former mentor, who in anger remarked that Picard's job was like that of " A Roman centurion .... maintaining a dull and bloated empire ".

The centurion in the infantry is chosen for his size, strength and dexterity in throwing his missile weapons and for his skill in the use of his sword and shield ; in short for his expertness in all the exercises.