And the day was beginning. It was a preparation Sabbath.
Now on the morrow, which is after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,
The Jews therefore, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, since it was Preparation (for it was the high day of that Sabbath), they besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they might be remove
And now having become evening, since it was the Preparation, that is, pre-Sabbath,
Therefore because of the Jews' Preparation (because the sepulcher was near) they laid Jesus there.
Now it was the Preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, Look at your king!
And having taken it down, he wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher cut in rock, of which no man was yet lain.
