Luke 23:54

And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

53and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn out, where no one was yet laid.

55and the women also who have come with him out of Galilee having followed after, beheld the tomb, and how his body was placed,

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Cross References

Mark 15:42And now evening having come, seeing it was the preparation, that is, the fore-sabbath,

John 19:31The Jews, therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for that sabbath day was a great one,) asked of Pilate that their legs may be broken, and they 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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