Sentence:  Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground , while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate 's <WSD>asking</WSD> for Christ 's body , Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes , and the others had gone home to mourn . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  make a request or demand for something to somebody