It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”
And because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus there.
Now it was already evening. Since it was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath),
He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tre
A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.
On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those da
On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for
After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until ev
Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.
The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and Pharisees assembled before Pilate.