John 19:31

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Cross References

Exodus 12:16

On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly; no work shall be done on those days; but what every one must eat, that only may be prepared by you.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Micah 3:3

who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces, and chop them up like meat in a kettle, like flesh in a caldron.

Matthew 27:62

Next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate

Mark 15:42

And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

John 19:1

Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.

John 19:14

Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”

John 19:42

So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

Joshua 8:29

And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.