And when evening was now come, (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath,)
Then the Jews, (because it was the parasceve,) that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a great sabbath day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, taking him down from the tree, they laid him in a sepulchre.