Luke 23:54

And that day was the preparing of the Sabbath, & the Sabbath drew on.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

53And toke it downe, and wrapped it in a linnen cloth, and layde it in a sepulchre that was hewen in stone, wherin neuer man before was layde.

55The women that folowed after, whiche had come with hym from Galilee, behelde the sepulchre, and how his body was layde.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And nowe when the euen was come, (because it was the day of preparyng, that goeth before the Sabboth)

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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