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John 19
³³ But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead, so they didn’t break his legs.
³⁴ One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
³⁵ (This report is from an eyewitness giving an accurate account. He speaks the truth so that you also can believe.)
³⁶ These things happened in fulfillment of the Scriptures that say, “Not one of his bones will be broken,”
³⁷ and “They will look on the one they pierced.”
³⁸ Afterward Joseph of Arimathea, who had been a secret disciple of Jesus (because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate for permission to take down Jesus’ body. When Pilate gave permission, Joseph came and took the body away.
³⁹ With him came Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus at night. He brought about seventy-five pounds of perfumed ointment made from myrrh and aloes.
⁴⁰ Following Jewish burial custom, they wrapped Jesus’ body with the spices in long sheets of linen cloth.
⁴¹ The place of crucifixion was near a garden, where there was a new tomb, never used before.
⁴² And so, because it was the day of preparation for the Jewish Passover and since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
John 20
¹ Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.