John 19:31 (KJV)

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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 an high day besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away

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because. Joh 19:14 Joh 19:42 Mt 27:62 Mr 15:42

that the. De 21:22 De 21:23

that sabbath. Le 23:7-16

their.Lactantius says that it was a custom to break the legs of criminals upon the cross; which was done, we are told, at the instep with an iron mallet; and appears to have been a kind of coup de grace, the sooner to put them out of pain. Joh 19:1 Pr 12:10 Mic 3:3

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