Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief Kohanim and the Perushim were gathered together to Pilate,
Now on the first day of matzah, the talmidim came to Yeshua, saying to him, *Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Pesach?*
When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Shabbat,
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.