It was the day of the Preparation, and the Shabbat was drawing near.
Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief Kohanim and the Perushim were gathered together to Pilate,
When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Shabbat,
He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.
Now it was the Preparation Day of the Pesach, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Judeans, *Behold, your King!*
Therefore the Judeans, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Shabbat (for that Shabbat was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Then because of the Judeans Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Yeshua there.