And pray that it will not be in the winter or on a Sabbath day when you will have to flee [from the city]. [Note: Jewish Sabbath day restrictions on travel (only three-fifths of a mile) and city gate closures would make leaving the city nearly impossible].

Now from the fifth hour darkness fell upon all the land, unto the ninth hour.

On the next day, which is the day after the Preparation Day, the high priests and Pharisees met and went in a body to Pilate,