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The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, and so that the bodies should not remain upon the cross 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 came the soldiers and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him.
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But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was dead already, they broke not His legs,
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but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith there came out blood and water.
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And he that saw it bore record, and his record is true, and he knoweth that he saith truly, that ye 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 saith, "They shall look on Him whom they pierced."
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And after this, Joseph of Arimathea, 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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And there came also Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds in weight.
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Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the manner of the Jews for burial.
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Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulcher wherein was never man yet laid.