John 19:33-42 ▼

33 then they came to Jesus, and finding that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

34 but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and immediately blood and water issued out.

35 he that relates this, was an eye-witness of it, and his relation is true: and he is so assured, what he says is true, that you may rely upon it.

36 for these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, "a bone of him shall not be broken."

37 and again the scripture saith elsewhere, "they shall look on him whom they pierced."

38 after this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but for fear of the Jews a conceal'd one, pray'd Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave: so he went and took the body of Jesus.

39 Nicodemus, who formerly went to Jesus by night, came likewise and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

40 they took therefore the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, according to the manner of burial among the Jews.

41 now near the place where he was crucified, there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which no body had ever yet been laid.

42 as this sepulchre was nigh at hand, they laid Jesus therein, because the time of the preparation of the Jews was expiring.