John 19:31

American Standard Version (1901)

The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Cross References

John 19:14

Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold, your King!

John 19:42

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

Mark 15:42

And when even was now come, because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

Joshua 8:29

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.

John 19:1

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.

Micah 3:3

who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Exodus 12:16

And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

Matthew 27:62

Now on the morrow, which is the day after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together unto Pilate,