Luke 23:54

It was a Preparation day; the Sabbath was drawing near.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

53Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock, where no one had ever been laid.

55The women who had come with Him from Galilee followed along, and they saw the tomb and how His body was placed there.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42Now when evening had come, because it was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

John 19:31Now then, because it was Preparation Day, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews requested Pilate that their legs might be broken and they be removed.

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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