"Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate," — Matthew 27:62

Matthew 27:62 · KJV

“Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,”

— Matthew 27:62

Verse 61

And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

Verse 63

Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

Matthew 27 — Context

And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

Cross References

Mark 15:42

And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

John 19:14

And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

John 19:42

There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation {day}; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

Matthew 26:17

Now the first {day} of the {feast of} unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?

Matthew 27:1-2

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Psalms 2:1-6

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? {rage: or, tumultuously assemble} {imagine: Heb. meditate}

Luke 23:54-56

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

John 19:31

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and {that} they might be taken away.