And the day was the preparation, and the sabbath shone forth.
And in the morrow, which is after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate
And being already evening, for it was the preparation, which is before sabbath,
And having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and put it in a tomb cut in stone, where none was ever laid.
And it was the preparation of the pascha, and about the sixth hour: and he says to the Jews, Behold your King!
Then the Jews, that the bodies remain not upon the cross in the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for great was the day of that sabbath,) asked Pilate that their legs be broken, and they be taken away.
There, therefore, on account of the Jews' preparation, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.