And on the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate,

Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, Behold your King!

Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews' Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby.