John 19:31

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

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  • John 19:14 : 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
  • John 19:42 : 42 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
  • Deut 21:22-23 : 22 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree; 23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
  • Josh 8:29 : 29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
  • Mark 15:42 : 42 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
  • John 19:1 : 1 So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
  • Exod 12:16 : 16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
  • Lev 23:7-9 : 7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. 8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.'" 9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh. 13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15 "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed: 16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
  • Josh 10:26-27 : 26 Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening. 27 It happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.
  • Prov 12:10 : 10 A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
  • Matt 27:62 : 62 Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

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  • John 19:32-33
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    32 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;

    33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs.

  • John 19:42
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    42 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

  • John 19:36-38
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    36 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."

    37 Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."

    38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.

  • Luke 23:52-54
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    52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.

    53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.

    54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

  • Mark 15:42-46
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    42 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

    43 Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.

    44 Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.

    45 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

    46 He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

  • Matt 27:62-64
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    62 Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

    63 saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'

    64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

  • John 19:30
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    30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

  • Matt 27:58-59
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    58 This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

    59 Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

  • John 19:40
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    40 So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

  • John 5:16
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    16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

  • John 19:14
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    14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

  • Acts 13:28-29
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    28 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

    29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

  • John 19:18-21
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    18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.

    19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

    20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

    21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"

  • John 18:31-32
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    31 Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"

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  • John 19:16
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    16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

  • Mark 15:32
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    32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him insulted him.

  • John 5:9-10
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    9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

    10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."

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    12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

  • John 19:23-24
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    23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

    24 Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.

  • Mark 15:29
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    29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

  • Mark 15:24-25
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    24 Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.

    25 It was the third hour, and they crucified him.

  • Mark 15:1
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    1 Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

  • Luke 24:20
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    20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

  • Luke 23:56
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    56 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

  • 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 sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

  • Matt 27:40
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    40 and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

  • Luke 22:7
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    7 The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

  • John 18:39
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    39 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

  • John 19:7
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    7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

  • Matt 20:19
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    19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up."