Luke 23:54

And the day was the preparation, and the sabbath was beginning.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

53And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher that had been hewed in rock, in which no one had yet been laid.

55And the women that had come with him from Galilee followed after and saw the sepulcher, and how his body was laid.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And when the evening had come, because it was the preparation, which is the eve of the sabbath,

John 19:31Then the Jews, as it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for that sabbath-day was a great day, besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken down.

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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