Luke 23:54

And it was the day of preparation, and the sabbath began to dawn.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 winding-sheet of linen; and laid it in an excavated sepulchre, in which no one had hitherto been laid.

55And those women who came with him from Galilee, approached, and viewed the sepulchre, and the manner in which the body was deposited.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And, as it was the eve of preparation, which precedeth the sabbath,

John 19:31And because it was the preparation, the Jews said: These bodies must not remain all night upon the cross: because the sabbath was dawning; and the day of that sabbath was a great day. And they requested of Pilate, that they should break the legs of those 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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