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The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the
cross {Gr. stauros – stake} on the sabbath day (for that sabbath day was a high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and
that they might be taken away.
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Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who were crucified with him.
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But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, they did not break his legs,
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but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith blood and water came out.
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And he that saw
it gives testimony, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he says
the truth, that ye also might believe.
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For these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
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And again another scripture says, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
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After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave
him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus.
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Then Nicodemus came also, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred pounds.
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And they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the manner of the Jews to bury.
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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which no one had yet been laid.