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Understanding 'Preparation Day'
Commentators explain that Mark, writing for a non-Jewish audience, clarifies the term 'Preparation.' This was the common name for Friday, the day when Jews would prepare everything needed for the Sabbath, as no work was permitted from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. This detail grounds the crucifixion in a specific day and time.
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Albert Barnes
On Mark 15:42
18th Century
Theologian
The even. The time after three o'clock in the afternoon.
The preparation. The following day was to be a day of special sol…
AT Robertson
On Mark 15:42
The preparation (παρασκευη). Mark explains the term as meaning "the day before the sabbath" (προσαββατον), that is our Friday, whi…
Charles Ellicott
On Mark 15:42
19th Century
Bishop
The preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath.—The explanation, like that in Mark 7:2-3, is characteristic of St. Mark, as …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Mark 15:42–43
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Mark 15:42
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…
John Gill
On Mark 15:42
17th Century
Pastor
And now when the even was come
"Of the preparation", as the Syriac version reads; or "the night of the sixth day":, …
Matthew Henry
On Mark 15:42–47
17th Century
Minister
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…