Luke 23:54
“And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.”
This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
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.
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
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“Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,”
“And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.”
“The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.”
“And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,”
“There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.”