Luke 23:54

the preparation This word paraskeuebecame the ordinary Greek word for Friday, because on Friday the Jews diligently prepared for the Sabbath, which began at sunset. The afternoon is called prosabbatonin Mark 15:42. Jos. Antt.xvi. 6. We are told that Shammai, the almost contemporary founder of the most rigid school of legalists, used to spend the whole week in meditating how he could best observe the Sabbath.

drew on Literally, "began to dawn."This expression is used, although the Sabbath began at sunset(Mark 15:42), because the whole period of darkness was regarded as anticipatory of the dawn. Hence the Jews sometimes called the evening of Friday - the daybreak."When St John (John 19:31) calls the coming Sabbath "a high day," the expression seems clearly to imply that it was boththe Sabbath and the day of the Passover.