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S i d e b a r
The Day of Preparation
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This Rock
Volume 10, Number 3
 March 1999 
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Matthew 27:62 "Next day [after the Crucifixion], that is, after the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate"
Mark 15:42-43: "And when evening had come, since it was the Day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea . . . took courage and went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus."
Luke 23:54: "It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin" (NIV).
John 19:14 "Now it was the Day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, ‘Behold your King!’"
John 19:31 "Since it was the Day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away."
John 19:42 "So because of the Jewish Day of Preparation, as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there."
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