When evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath),
It was the Preparation Day, and then the next day was a special Sabbath. Because the Jews didn’t want the bodies left on the cross on the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have their legs broken and that they might be taken down.
When they had completed all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.