Bible Verses About Preparation Day

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

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

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

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

Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away.

There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus: because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.