Luke 23:54

And it was the day of the Preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

Revised Version 1895

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 linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was hewn in stone, where never man had yet lain.

55And the women, which had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And when even was now come, because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

John 19:31The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of 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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