By this time it was evening, and as it was the day of Preparation (that is, the day before the sabbath)
Now, as it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies remaining on the cross during the sabbath (for that sabbath-day was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
and, after carrying out all that had been predicted of him in scripture, they lowered him from the gibbet and laid him in a tomb.