John 19:42 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴² And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴² There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² So there, because of the Jewish day of Preparation [and] since the tomb was near by, they laid Jesus.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴² There then because of the Jews’ Preparation (for the tomb was nigh at hand) they laid Jesus.

Common English Bible

⁴² Because it was the Jewish Preparation Day and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus in it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² Therefore, because of the preparation day of the Jews, since the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus there.

John 19:42 Cross References

John 19:31

Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the Sabbath, especially because that Sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed.

John 19:14

Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”

John 19:41

Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.

Isaiah 53:9

They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

Colossians 2:12

when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

1 Corinthians 15:4

and that he was buried and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures

Acts 13:29

When they had carried out everything that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.

John 19:20

Many of the Jews read this inscription because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

Matthew 12:40

For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.

Psalm 22:15

my mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.