Key Verse Spotlight
John 19:36 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.”
John 19:36
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
And he that saw {it} bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave {him} leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
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