The preparation (παρασκευη). Mark explains the term as meaning "the day before the sabbath" (προσαββατον), that is our Friday, whi…

The even. The time after three o'clock in the afternoon.

The preparation. The following day was to be a day of special sol…

The preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath.—The explanation, like that in Mark 7:2-3, is characteristic of St. Mark, as …

I have no doubt that Pilate was very surprised that a member of the Sanhedrin should come and ask for the body of Jesus, when, a little while befor…

Glossa Ordinaria: After Christ's Passion and Death, the Evangelist relates His burial, saying, And now when evening had co…

Preparation Day was the name given to the day before a festival or a Sabbath. Here it refers to the day before the Sabbath (as Mark explains for th…

And now when the even was come
"Of the preparation", as the Syriac version reads; or "the night of the sixth day":, …

We are here attending the burial of our Lord Jesus. Oh that we may by grace be planted in the likeness of it! Joseph of Arimathea was one who waite…