Luke 23:54

It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was beginning.

Majority Standard Bible

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 a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

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

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Cross References

Mark 15:42Now it was already evening. Since it was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

John 19:31It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies 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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