Luke 23:54

And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drewe on.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

53And tooke it downe, and wrapped it in a linnen cloth, and laide it in a tombe hewen out of a rocke, wherein was neuer man yet laide.

55And the women also that followed after, which came with him from Galile, behelde the sepulchre, and how his body was layd.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And nowe when the night was come (because it was the day of the preparation that is before the Sabbath)

John 19:31The Iewes then (because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remaine vpon the crosse on the Sabbath day: for that Sabbath was an hie day) besought Pilate that their legges might be broken, and that they might be taken downe.

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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