John 19:36

For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, “Not a bone of His shall be broken.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.

In Context

35And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he tells the truth, so that you may believe.

37And again another Scripture says, “ They shall look at Him whom they pierced.” 1 The Burial of Jesus

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Cross References

Matthew 1:22Now all this came to pass that the thing spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,

John 19:28After this, Jesus, seeing that all things already had been fulfilled, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, “I thirst!”

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 →

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