It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached,
Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.