And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.