John 19:31 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³¹ Since it was the preparation day,  the Jews did not want the bodies  to remain on the cross  on the Sabbath  (for that Sabbath was a special  day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from hanging on the cross on the Sabbath–for that Sabbath was a very solemn and important one–the Jews requested Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken away.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Common English Bible

³¹ It was the Preparation Day and the Jewish leaders didn’t want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath, especially since that Sabbath was an important day. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of those crucified broken and the bodies taken down.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Then the Jews, because it was the preparation day, so that the bodies would not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a great day), they petitioned Pilate in order that their legs might be broken, and they might be taken away.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Then the Jews, (because it was the parasceve,) that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a great sabbath day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

John 19:31 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 12:16

You are to hold a sacred assembly  on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat #– #you may do only that.

Proverbs 12:10

The righteous cares about his animal’s health, but even the merciful acts of the wicked are cruel.

Micah 3:3

You eat the flesh  of my people after you strip their skin from them and break their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.’

Matthew 27:62

The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate

Mark 15:42

When  it was already evening, because it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

John 19:1

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

John 19:14

It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about noon.  Then he told the Jews, ‘Here is your king! ’

John 19:42

They placed Jesus there because of the Jewish day of preparation and since the tomb was nearby.

Joshua 8:29

He hung  the body of the king of Ai on a tree  until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree.  They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which still remains today.