Luke 23:54

It was the Preparation day, and just before the Sabbath began.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

53and, when he had taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen sheet, and laid him in a tomb cut out of stone, in which no one had yet been buried.

55The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how the body of Jesus was laid,

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Cross References

Mark 15:42The evening had already fallen, when, as it was the Preparation day – the day before the Sabbath –

John 19:31It was the Preparation day, and so, to prevent the bodies from remaining on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a great day), 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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