John 19:34
Instead, one of the soldiers opened his side with a lance, and immediately there went out blood and water.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
In Context
Cross References
Ezekiel 36:25And I will pour clean water over you, and you shall be cleansed from all your filth, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.
Zechariah 13:1In that day, there will be a fountain open to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for the washing of the transgressor and of the defiled woman.
John 13:8Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you will have no place with me.”
1 Corinthians 1:30But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who was made by God to be our wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption.
Ephesians 5:26so that he might sanctify her, washing her clean by water and the Word of life,
Titus 3:5And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew Henry on John 19:32-38
The Crucifixion. 31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, 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. 32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side,… Read the whole commentary →