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 (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and their bodies taken away, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath.
When they had fulfilled all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.