And now evening having come, seeing it was the preparation, that is, the foresabbath,
The Jews, therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for that sabbath day was a great one,) asked of Pilate that their legs may be broken, and they taken away.
and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken [him] down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb;