<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> when evening had already come, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),<n id="2" />

(Now it was the day of preparation<n id="1" /> for the Passover, about noon.<n id="2" />)<n id="3" /> Pilate<n id="4" /> said to the Jewish leaders,<n id="5" /> &#8220;Look, here is your king!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath<n id="1" /> (for that Sabbath was an especially important one),<n id="2" /> the Jewish leaders<n id="3" /> asked Pilate to have the victims&#8217; legs<n id="4" /> broken<n id="5" /> and the bodies taken down.<n id="6" />