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John - ch 19 v 21 - 40
- The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Do not write, The king of the Jews, but that he said, I am king of the Jews.
- Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
- The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothes, and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and the body-coat; but the body-coat was seamless, woven through the whole from the top.
- They said therefore to one another, Let us not rend it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled which says, They parted my garments among themselves, and on my vesture they cast lots. The soldiers therefore did these things.
- And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and the sister of his mother, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
- Jesus therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son.
- Then he says unto the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
- After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, says, I thirst.
- There was a vessel therefore there full of vinegar, and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting hyssop round it, they put it up to his mouth.
- When therefore Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished; and having bowed his head, he delivered up his spirit.
- The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for it was the preparation, (for the day of that sabbath was a great day,) demanded of Pilate that their legs might be broken and they taken away.
- The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and of the other that had been crucified with him;
- but coming to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead they did not break his legs,
- but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.
- And he who saw it bears witness, and his witness is true, and he knows that he says true that ye also may believe.
- For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shall be broken.
- And again another scripture says, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
- And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews, demanded of Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus: and Pilate allowed it. He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus.
- And Nicodemus also, who at first came to Jesus by night, came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.
- They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it up in linen with the spices, as it is the custom with the Jews to prepare for burial.
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