Luke 23:54

It was the day of preparation, and the sabbath drew near.

Revised King James New Testament

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 linen, and laid it in a tomb cut into the stone, where no man had ever before been laid.

55Now the women who came with him from Galilee, followed behind, and beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And when the evening had come, because it was the preparation day, that is, the day before the sabbath,

John 19:31Because it was the day of preparation, in order that the bodies would not remain upon the cross during the sabbath day (for that sabbath day was a high day,) the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

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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