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The Day of Preparation

This Rock Volume 10, Number 3   March 1999     Up Front By Tim Ryland   Letters   Dragnet   THE OLD IS NEW AGAIN By J. STEVEN COVINGTON   SO YOU CALL YOURSELF A CATHOLIC . . . By KARL KEATING   MORE APOLOGETICS By JAMES MONTI   THE BLIND LEADING THE BAPTIZED By ADRIAN M. FIGUEROLA PIJOAN   Fathers Know Best The Intercession of the Saints   Chapter & Verse Crucifixion Wednesday? By James Akin   The Day of Preparation   Classic Apologetics Where Are the Original Scriptures? By Henry G. Graham   Conversion Story Beyond Pancakes By Bonnie Landry   Quick Questions    Subscribe    Permissions

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."