But he tried to prevent him. "It is I," he said, "who need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?"

"Come to terms with your opponent quickly, while you are yet with him on the way [to the court], to prevent your opponent from handing you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and so you be thrown into prison.

So he directed his disciples to keep a little boat in readiness for him, because of the crowd, to prevent their crushing him.

It was Preparation Day, so in order to prevent the bodies' hanging on the cross during the Sabbath (for the Sabbath was a great day) the Jews begged Pilate to have the legs broken, and the bodies taken away.