When it was already evening, since it was the day of preparation, the day before the sabbath,
Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down.
and when they had accomplished all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.