Luke 23:54

Legacy Standard Bible

It was Preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It was the preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

King James Version (1611)
And that day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew on.

King James Version
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

English Standard Version
It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.

New American Standard Bible
It was a preparation day, and a Sabbath was about to begin.

New Century Version
This was late on Preparation Day, and when the sun went down, the Sabbath day would begin.

Amplified Bible
It was the day of preparation [for the Sabbath], and the Sabbath was dawning.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
It was the preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

Berean Standard Bible
It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was just beginning.

Contemporary English Version
It was Friday, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

Complete Jewish Bible
It was Preparation Day, and a Shabbat was about to begin.

Darby Translation
And it was preparation day, and [the] sabbath twilight was coming on.

Easy-to-Read Version
It was late on Preparation day. When the sun went down, the Sabbath day would begin.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drewe on.

George Lamsa Translation
This was a Friday, and the sabbath was approaching.

Good News Translation
It was Friday, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

Lexham English Bible
And it was the day of preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

Literal Translation
And it was Preparation Day, and a sabbath was coming on.

American Standard Version
And it was the day of the Preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

Bible in Basic English
Now it was the day of making ready and the Sabbath was coming on.

Hebrew Names Version
It was the day of the Preparation, and the Shabbat was coming on.

International Standard Version
It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was just beginning.Matthew 27:62;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And it was the day of the preparation; and the shabath had lighted.

Murdock Translation
And it was the day of preparation, and the sabbath began to dawn.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And that day was the preparing of the Sabbath, & the Sabbath drew on.

English Revised Version
And it was the day of the Preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

World English Bible
It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was coming on.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

Weymouth's New Testament
It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was near at hand.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the dai was the euen of the halidai, and the sabat bigan to schyne.

Update Bible Version
And it was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew on.

Webster's Bible Translation
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

New English Translation
It was the day of preparation and the Sabbath was beginning.

New King James Version
That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near.

New Living Translation
This was done late on Friday afternoon, the day of preparation, as the Sabbath was about to begin.

New Life Bible
It was time to get ready for the Day of Rest which was about to begin.

New Revised Standard
It was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was beginning.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it was a day of preparation, and, a Sabbath, was about to dawn.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it was the day of the Parasceve: and the sabbath drew on.

Revised Standard Version
It was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was beginning.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And that daye was ye Saboth even and the Saboth drue on.

Young's Literal Translation
And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And it was the daye of preparinge, and the Sabbath drue on.

Mace New Testament (1729)
now that day was the preparation, and the sabbath then drew on.

Simplified Cowboy Version
He had to do it quickly because it was late in the day on Friday and the day of rest was about to begin at sundown.

Contextual Overview

⁵⁰And behold, a man named Joseph, who was a Council member, a good and righteous man ⁵¹(he had not consented to their counsel and action), a man from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God; ⁵²this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ⁵³And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had ever lain. ⁵⁴It was Preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin. ⁵⁵Now the women, who had come with Him from Galilee, followed and beheld the tomb and how His body was laid. ⁵⁶Then after they returned, they prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Bible Verse Review
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Matthew 27:62, John 19:14, John 19:31, John 19:42

Reciprocal: Mark 16:1 - when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And that day was the preparation,.... Both for the sabbath, and for the "Chagigah", or grand festival, which they kept on the fifteenth day of the month, in a very pompous manner; so that the day following was an high day;

and the sabbath drew on, or "shone out"; which is so said, though it was evening, on account of the lights, which were every where, in every house, lighted up at this time, and which they were, by their traditions, obliged to: for so run their canons c;

"three things a man is obliged to say in the midst of his house on the evening of the sabbath, when it is near dark, have ye tithed? have ye mixed? (i.e. the borders of the sabbath, the courts and food) הדליקו הנר, "light the lamp".''

This was what could by no means be dispensed with; for so they say d,

"the lighting of the lamp on the sabbath is not in a man's power, (or at his liberty,) if he pleases he may light, and if not, he may not light.----But it is what he is obliged to, and every man and woman are bound to have in their houses a lamp lighted up on the sabbath; and though he has nothing to eat, he must beg, and get oil, and light a lamp; for this is included in the delight of the sabbath.----And he that lights, ought to light within the day, before the setting of the sun.''

So that when these lamps were every where lighting, before the sun was set, and the sabbath properly come, it might be said to draw on, or to be shining forth. Besides, it was usual to call the evening of any day by the name of "light": thus it is said e,

"rve ebral rwa, on the light (i.e. the night) of the fourteenth (of the month "Nisan"), they search for leaven, &c.''

So that the evangelist might, very agreeably to the way of speaking with the Jews, say, that the sabbath was enlightening, or growing light, though the evening was coming on.

c Misn. Sabbat, c. 2. sect. 7. d Maimon. Hilch. Sabbat, c. 5. sect. 1, 3. e Misn. Pesachim, c. 1. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the Matthew 27:57-61 notes; Mark 15:42-47 notes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 23:54. And the Sabbath drew on. — Or, The Sabbath was lighting up, επεφωσκε, i.e. with the candles which the Jews light just before six in the evening, when the Sabbath commences. The same word is used for the dawning of the day, Matthew 28:1. Wakefield. The Jews always lighted up candles on the Sabbath; and it was a solemn precept that, "if a man had not bread to eat, he must beg from door to door to get a little oil to set up his Sabbath light." The night of the Sabbath drew on, which the Jews were accustomed to call the light. See Lightfoot.