Luke 23:54

And it was the day of the Parasceve, and the sabbath drew on.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

53And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.

55And the women that were come with him from Galilee, following after, saw the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And when evening was now come, (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath,)

John 19:31Then the Jews, (because it was the parasceve,) that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a great sabbath day,) besought 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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