◄ Luke 23:54 ►
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Good News Translation
It was Friday, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

New Revised Standard Version
It was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was beginning.

Contemporary English Version
It was Friday, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

New American Bible
It was the day of preparation, and the sabbath was about to begin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it was the day of the Parasceve: and the sabbath drew on.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And it was the day of the Parasceve: and the sabbath drew on.

Matthew 27:62 And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

John 19:14,31,42 And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king. . . .

Context
The Burial of Jesus
…53And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid. 54And it was the day of the Parasceve: and the sabbath drew on. 55And the women that were come with him from Galilee, following after, saw the sepulchre and how his body was laid.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:62
And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

Mark 15:42
And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath),

Luke 23:53
And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.

Luke 23:53
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