John 19:31
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Jesus’ Side Is Pierced
31 (A)Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, (B)that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a (C)high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
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John 19:14
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14 Now (A)it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
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John 19:42
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42 So (A)there they laid Jesus, (B)because of the Jews’ Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby.
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Mark 15:42
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Jesus Buried in Joseph’s Tomb(A)
42 (B)Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
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Joshua 8:29
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29 (A)And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. (B)And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and (C)raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.
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John 19:1
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Micah 3:3
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3 Who also (A)eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
(B)Like flesh in the caldron.”
Proverbs 12:10
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10 (A)A righteous man regards the life of his animal,
But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Joshua 10:26-27
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26 And afterward Joshua struck [a]them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they (A)were hanging on the trees until evening. 27 So it was at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded, and they (B)took them down from the trees, cast them into the cave where they had been hidden, and laid large stones against the cave’s mouth, which remain until this very day.
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- Joshua 10:26 The kings
Deuteronomy 21:22-23
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Miscellaneous Laws
22 “If a man has committed a sin (A)deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, 23 (B)his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that (C)you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance; for (D)he who is hanged is accursed of God.
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Leviticus 23:7-16
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7 (A)On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no [a]customary work on it. 8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.’ ”
The Feast of Firstfruits
9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: (B)‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of (C)the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 He shall (D)wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13 Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord, for a [b]sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin. 14 You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
The Feast of Weeks(E)
15 ‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. 16 Count (F)fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer (G)a new grain offering to the Lord.
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- Leviticus 23:7 occupational
- Leviticus 23:13 pleasing
Exodus 12:16
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16 On the first day there shall be (A)a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat—that only may be prepared by you.
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Matthew 27:62
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Pilate Sets a Guard
62 On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate,
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