Matthew 27:62
Good News Translation
The next day, which was a Sabbath, the chief priests and the Pharisees met with Pilate

New Revised Standard Version
The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate

Contemporary English Version
On the next day, which was a Sabbath, the chief priests and the Pharisees went together to Pilate.

New American Bible
The next day, the one following the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

the day.

Matthew 26:17 And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch?

Mark 15:42 And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath),

Luke 23:54-56 And it was the day of the Parasceve: and the sabbath drew on. . . .

John 19:14,42 And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king. . . .

the chief priests.

Matthew 27:1,2 And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death. . . .

Psalm 2:1-6 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Acts 4:27,28 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, . . .

Context
The Guards at the Tomb
61And there was there Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. 62And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate, 63Saying: Sir, we have remembered, that that seducer said, while he was yet alive: After three days I will rise again.…
Cross References
Mark 15:42
And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath),

Luke 23:54
And it was the day of the Parasceve: and the sabbath drew on.

John 19:14
And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.

John 19:31
Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away.

Matthew 27:61
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