Luke 23:54

English Majority Text Version

That day was the Preparation; the Sabbath was drawing near.

Cross References

Matthew 27:62

On the next day, which is after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

Mark 15:42

And now evening having come, since it was Preparation Day, which is the day before the Sabbath,

Luke 23:53

And having taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth, and put it in a tomb cut out of rock, where no one had ever lain before.

John 19:14

Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

John 19:31

Therefore the Jews, since it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they might be taken away.

John 19:42

So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews' Preparation Day, because the tomb was near.