And now evening having come, seeing it was the preparation, that is, the fore-sabbath,
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;