Now it was the Day of Preparation, and Shabbat was approaching.
Now on the next day, which is after the preparation, the ruling kohanim and Pharisees were gathered before Pilate.
It was the Day of Preparation, and the next day was a festival Shabbat. So that the bodies should not remain on the execution stake during Shabbat, the Judean leaders asked Pilate to have the legs broken and to have the bodies taken away.
Now evening had already come. Since it was the Day of Preparation, that is, the day before Shabbat,
Because it was the Jewish Day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they laid Yeshua there.
It was the Day of Preparation for Passover, about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Judean leaders, “Behold, your king!”
And he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had ever yet been laid.