And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
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Gill's Exposition
And he bought fine linen,.... That is, Joseph, as is expressed in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Persic versions; which, when he had done, as is highly probable, in the city of Jerusalem, he went to…
Barnes' Notes
The even - The time after three o’clock in the afternoon. The Preparation ... - The following day was to be a day of special solemnity, called the “great day” of the feast. More than ordinary…
Adam Clarke
The day before the Sabbath - What we would call Friday evening. As the law of Moses had ordered that no criminal should continue hanging on a tree or gibbet till the setting of the sun, Joseph,…
We are here attending the funeral of our Lord Jesus, a solemn, mournful funeral. O that we may by grace be planted in the likeness of it! Observe,
I. How the body of Christ was begged. It was, as the…
Cambridge Bible
The Burial
42. the preparation i. e. for the Sabbath, which St Mark, writing for other readers than Jews, explains as "the day before the Sabbath."