And when even was now come, because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.