And now having become evening, since it was the Preparation, that is, pre-Sabbath,
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 when they completed all the things written about him, having taken him down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb.