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19:31-42
By then it was the Jewish preparation time (for the feast). The Jews
did not want the bodies to remain on the cross during the great Sabbath day
so they asked Pilate that the legs (of those crucified) might be broken so
they could be taken away. The soldiers therefore came and broke the
legs of the first and the other one that was crucified with him
(Jesus). But on coming to Jesus they saw that he had already
died. They therefore did not break his legs but one of the soldiers
pricked his side with his spear. Immediately blood and water came
out. The one recounting this is a witness to it because he saw it and
his witness is true. He is speaking the truth so that you (the
reader) may believe. These things truly did happen so that Scripture
might be fulfilled when it says "Not a bone of his shall be
broken." And again another part of Scripture says "They
shall look at him whom they
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have pierced." Now after these things Joseph
from Arimathea approached Pilate. He had been a disciple of Jesus
but was secret (about this) because of his fear of the Jews. He asked
asked that he might
take the body of Jesus. Pilate
allowed this. He therefore came and took his body. Nicodemus,
the one who had come to him (Jesus) by night earlier on, also came
(forward). He brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes that weighed about
a hundred pounds. They therefore took the body of Jesus and bound it
into sheets with the spices according to the burial custom of the
Jews. Now there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and
in the garden there was a new tomb. No one had ever been put
there. It was there therefore, that because it was the preparation
(time) for the Jews and because (this tomb) was nearby that they put Jesus.
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