Luke 23:54

Now that day was the preparation, and the sabbath was coming on:

1770 John Worsley NT

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 sepulchre hewn in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.

55wherefore the women, that came with Him from Galilee, followed Joseph, and saw the sepulchre, and how the body was laid:

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And the evening being now come, (because it was the preparation,

John 19:31The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day, because it was now the preparation, (for that sabbath-day was an high-day) desired 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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