Luke 23:54

And it was preparation day, and [the] sabbath twilight was coming on.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

53and having taken it down, wrapped it in fine linen and placed him in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had ever been laid.

55And women, who had come along with him out of Galilee, having followed, saw the sepulchre and how his body was placed.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And when it was already evening, since it was [the] preparation, that is, [the day] before a sabbath,

John 19:31The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for it was [the] preparation, (for the day of that sabbath was a great [day],) demanded of Pilate that their legs might be broken and they 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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