John 19:31

New International Reader's Version

It was Preparation Day. The next day would be a special Sabbath day. The Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath day. So they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.

Cross References

Exodus 12:16

On the first and seventh days, come together for a sacred assembly. Do not work at all on these days. The only thing you are allowed to do is prepare food for everyone to eat.

Proverbs 12:10

Those who do what is right take good care of their animals. But the kindest acts of those who do wrong are mean.

Micah 3:3

You eat my people’s bodies. You strip off their skin. You break their bones in pieces. You chop them up like meat. You put them in a cooking pot.”

Matthew 27:62

The next day was the day after Preparation Day. The chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate.

Mark 15:42

It was the day before the Sabbath. That day was called Preparation Day. As evening approached,

John 19:1

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped.

John 19:14

It was about noon on Preparation Day in Passover Week. “Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.

John 19:42

That day was the Jewish Preparation Day, and the tomb was nearby. So they placed Jesus there.

Joshua 8:29

Joshua killed the king of Ai. He stuck a pole through the body. Then he set it up where people could see it. He left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered his men to remove the body from the pole. He told them to throw the body down at the entrance of the city gate. They put a large pile of rocks over the body. That pile is still there to this day.