And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
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.
And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.