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I don't think so.
John 19:
Παρασκευὴ (Paraskeuē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3904: The day of preparation, the day before the Sabbath, Friday. As if from paraskeuazo; readiness.
That was a Friday before the Sabbath during the multi-day Passover Festival, not the day they killed the paschal lamb.
A later verse confirmed this:
The Jews wanted to finish the work before the Sabbath.
No, he ate the Paschal lamb in the Last Supper. He died the next day, Friday.
John 19:
the day of Preparation14 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He [Pilate] said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
Παρασκευὴ (Paraskeuē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3904: The day of preparation, the day before the Sabbath, Friday. As if from paraskeuazo; readiness.
That was a Friday before the Sabbath during the multi-day Passover Festival, not the day they killed the paschal lamb.
A later verse confirmed this:
Gill:31 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
BDAG σάββατον:for that sabbath day was an high day; it was not only a sabbath, and a sabbath in the passover week.
① the seventh day of the week in Israel’s calendar, marked by rest fr. work and by special religious ceremonies, sabbath
ⓐ sing.
BDAG classified this high Sabbath day as a weekly Saturday.σάββατον μέγα Great Sabbath MPol 8:1; 21:1; cp. J 19:31b
The Jews wanted to finish the work before the Sabbath.
Did Jesus die on the day they killed the paschal lamb?41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. 42 So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
No, he ate the Paschal lamb in the Last Supper. He died the next day, Friday.