So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain 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.
Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.
For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
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