John 19:31-38 ▼

31 The Iewes therefore, because it was the preparyng of the Sabboth that the bodyes should not remaine vpo ye crosse on the Sabboth day (for that Sabboth day, was an hye day) besought Pilate that their legges myght be broken, and that they myght be taken downe.

32 Then came the souldiers, and brake the legges of the first, and of the other which was crucified with hym:

33 But when they came to Iesus, & sawe that he was dead alredye, they brake not his legges.

34 But one of the souldyers with a speare thruste hym into the syde, & foorthwith came there out blood and water.

35 And he that sawe it, bare recorde, and his recorde is true: & he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might beleue also.

36 For these thynges were done, that the scripture shoulde be fulfylled: Ye shall not breake a bone of hym.

37 And agayne another scripture saith: They shall loke on hym whom they pearsed.

38 After this, Ioseph of Aramathia, (which was a disciple of Iesus, but secretely, for feare of ye Iewes) besought Pilate that he myght take downe the body of Iesus. And Pilate gaue hym licence. He came therefore, and toke the dye of Iesus.