John 19:14

Now on the next day, the day after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with Pilate,

And it was now about the sixth hour, and darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour,

And Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, “JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews;’ but that He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”

Then the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Therefore because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.