After 6 o'clock p.m.of that day was the beginning of the sabbath day, and under the law the Jews must rest; hence we are not to expect that they did much of anything.

Nor could it have been a day of much rest to them.

It was a day of great sorrow.

They could do no work to divert their minds from the terrible shock caused by the crucifixion of the Lord.

The rest must have been one merely of cessation from labor.