Luke 23:54

And the day was beginning. It was a preparation Sabbath.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

In Context

53And having taken it down, he wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher cut in rock, of which no man was yet lain.

55And having followed closely, the women who were gathered to him out of Galilee, they saw the sepulcher, and how his body was laid.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And now having become evening, since it was the Preparation, that is, pre-Sabbath,

John 19:31The Jews therefore, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, since it was Preparation (for it was the high day of that Sabbath), they besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they might be remove

Matthew Henry on Luke 23:51-56

The Burial of Christ. 50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: 51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathæa, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. 52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. 53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. 54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath… Read the whole commentary →

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