Bible Verses About Sabbath: Preparations for

On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

Therefore the Judeans, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.