Luke 23:54

It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was near at hand.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

53Then, taking it down, he wrapped it in a linen sheet and laid it in a tomb in the rock, where no one else had yet been put.

55The women--those who had come with Jesus from Galilee--followed close behind, and saw the tomb and how His body was placed.

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Cross References

Mark 15:42Towards sunset, as it was the Preparation--that is, the day preceding the Sabbath--

John 19:31Meanwhile the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and in order that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was one of special solemnity), requested Pilate to have the legs of the dying men broken, and the bodies removed.

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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