Now evening had already come. Since it was the Day of Preparation, that is, the day before Shabbat,
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.
When they had carried out all that had been written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.