When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Shabbat,
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.
When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.