'Preparation' in the Bible

Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;

(now it was the preparation of the passover; it was about the sixth hour;) and he says to the Jews, Behold your king!

The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for it was the preparation, (for the day of that sabbath was a great day,) demanded of Pilate that their legs might be broken and they taken away.

There therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.