Luke 23:54

And it was the day of the preparation; and the shabath had lighted.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

53and he took it down, and wrapped it in a cloth of linen, and laid it in a hewn sepulchre, in which no one had hitherto been laid.

55And the women also drew near, they who had come with him from Galila; and they saw the sepulchre, and where the body was laid;

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Cross References

Mark 15:42AND when it was evening of the preparation which is before the shabath,

John 19:31THE Jihudoyee, because it was the preparation, said, Let not these bodies remain-all-night upon the cross, because the shabath has lighted: for a great day was the day of that shabath. And they besought of Pilatos that they should break the legs of those (who had been) crucified, and take them down.

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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