John 19:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now it was the day of getting ready for the Passover, and so that the bodies might not be on the cross on the Sabbath (because the day of that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews made a request to Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

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  • John 19:14 : 14 (It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!
  • John 19:42 : 42 So they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the Passover, and the place was near.
  • Deut 21:22-23 : 22 If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree; 23 Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.
  • Josh 8:29 : 29 And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there to this day.
  • Mark 15:42 : 42 And when it was evening, because it was the time of getting ready, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
  • John 19:1 : 1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped with cords.
  • Exod 12:16 : 16 And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.
  • Lev 23:7-9 : 7 On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work. 8 And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work. 9 And the Lord said to Moses, 10 Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest; 11 And let the grain be waved before the Lord, so that you may be pleasing to him; on the day after the Sabbath let it be waved by the priest. 12 And on the day of the waving of the grain, you are to give a male lamb of the first year, without any mark, for a burned offering to the Lord. 13 And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14 And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living. 15 And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering; 16 Let fifty days be numbered, to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you are to give a new meal offering to the Lord.
  • Josh 10:26-27 : 26 Then Joshua had them put to death, hanging them on five trees, where they were till evening. 27 And when the sun went down, they were taken down from the trees, by Joshua's orders, and put into the hole where they had gone to be safe; and great stones were placed at the mouth of the hole, where they are to this day.
  • Prov 12:10 : 10 An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
  • Matt 27:62 : 62 Now on the day after the getting ready of the Passover, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,

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  • John 19:32-33
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    32 So the men of the army came, and the legs of the first were broken and then of the other who was put to death on the cross with Jesus:

    33 But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead by this time, and so his legs were not broken;

  • John 19:42
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    42 So they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the Passover, and the place was near.

  • John 19:36-38
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    36 These things came about so that the Writings might be true, No bone of his body will be broken.

    37 And again another verse says, They will see him who was wounded by their spears.

    38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body.

  • Luke 23:52-54
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    52 This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.

    53 And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.

    54 Now it was the day of making ready and the Sabbath was coming on.

  • Mark 15:42-46
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    42 And when it was evening, because it was the time of getting ready, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

    43 There came Joseph of Arimathaea, a responsible man in high honour, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God; and he went in to Pilate without fear, and made a request for the body of Jesus.

    44 And Pilate was surprised that he was dead; and, sending for the captain, he put a question to see if he had been dead for long.

    45 And when he had news of it from the captain, he let Joseph have the body.

    46 And he got a linen cloth and, taking him down, put the linen cloth round him, and put him in a place for the dead which had been cut out of a rock; and a stone was rolled against the door.

  • Matt 27:62-64
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    62 Now on the day after the getting ready of the Passover, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,

    63 Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.

    64 Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.

  • John 19:30
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    30 So when Jesus had taken the wine he said, All is done. And with his head bent he gave up his spirit.

  • Matt 27:58-59
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    58 This man went in to Pilate, and made a request for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate gave orders for it to be given to him.

    59 And Joseph took the body, folding it in clean linen,

  • John 19:40
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    40 Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest.

  • John 5:16
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    16 And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

  • John 19:14
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    14 (It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!

  • Acts 13:28-29
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    28 And though no cause of death was seen in him, they made a request to Pilate that he might be put to death.

    29 And when they had done all the things said in the Writings about him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in the place of the dead.

  • John 19:18-21
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    18 Where they put him on the cross with two others, one on this side and one on that, and Jesus in the middle.

    19 And Pilate put on the cross a statement in writing. The writing was: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

    20 The writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put to death on the cross was near the town; and the writing was in Hebrew and Latin and Greek.

    21 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not put, The King of the Jews, but, He said, I am the King of the Jews.

  • John 18:31-32
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    31 Then Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and let him be judged by your law. But the Jews said to him, We have no right to put any man to death.

    32 (That the word of Jesus might come true, pointing to the sort of death he would have.)

  • John 19:16
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    16 So then he gave him up to them to be put to death on the cross. And they took Jesus away;

  • Mark 15:32
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    32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and have belief. And those who were put on crosses with him said evil things against him.

  • John 5:9-10
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    9 And the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day was the Sabbath.

    10 So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.

  • Num 9:12
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    12 Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.

  • John 19:23-24
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    23 And when Jesus was nailed to the cross, the men of the army took his clothing, and made a division of it into four parts, to every man a part, and they took his coat: now the coat was without a join, made out of one bit of cloth.

    24 So they said among themselves, Let this not be cut up, but let us put it to the decision of chance and see who gets it. (They did this so that the Writings might come true, which say, They made a distribution of my clothing among them, and my coat they put to the decision of chance.) This was what the men of the army did.

  • Mark 15:29
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    29 And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,

  • Mark 15:24-25
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    24 And he was nailed to the cross; and they made a division of his clothing among them, putting to the decision of chance what everyone was to take.

    25 And it was the third hour when they put him on the cross.

  • Mark 15:1
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    1 And the first thing in the morning the chief priests, with those in authority and the scribes and all the Sanhedrin, had a meeting, and put cords round Jesus, and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate.

  • Luke 24:20
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    20 And how the chief priests and our rulers gave him up to be put to death on the cross.

  • Luke 23:56
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    56 And they went back and got ready spices and perfumes; and on the Sabbath they took their rest, in agreement with the law.

  • Mark 14:1
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    1 It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:

  • Matt 27:40
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    40 You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

  • Luke 22:7
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    7 And the day of unleavened bread came, when the Passover lamb is put to death.

  • John 18:39
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    39 But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?

  • John 19:7
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    7 And the Jews made answer, We have a law, and by that law it is right for him to be put to death because he said he was the Son of God.

  • Matt 20:19
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    19 And will give him up to the Gentiles to be made sport of and to be whipped and to be put to death on the cross: and the third day he will come back again from the dead.