Luke 23:54

Now it was the day of making ready and the Sabbath was coming on.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

53And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.

55And the women who had come with him from Galilee went after him and saw the place and how his body had been put to rest;

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And when it was evening, because it was the time of getting ready, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

John 19:31Now it was the day of getting ready for the Passover, and so that the bodies might not be on the cross on the Sabbath (because the day of that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews made a request to Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

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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