PREPARATION DAY

Passages on this topic · 6

• Matthew 27:62

  Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

• Mark 15:42

  When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

• Luke 23:54

  It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

• John 19:14

  Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

• John 19:31

  Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

• John 19:42

  Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.