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28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things and he knows that he is telling the truth, so
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were now accomplished, that the Scripture that you may believe. For these things were
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might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!” Now a ves- done that the Scripture should be fulfilled,
sel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they “Not one of His bones shall be broken.” And
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filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hys- again another Scripture says, “They shall look
sop, and put it to His mouth. So when Jesus on Him whom they pierced.”
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had received the sour wine, He said, “It is fin- 38 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a
ished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the
spirit. Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the
31 Therefore, because it was the Preparation body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission.
Day, that the bodies should not remain on the So he came and took the body of Jesus. And
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cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by
high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh
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might be broken, and that they might be taken and aloes, about a hundred pounds. Then
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away. Then the soldiers came and broke the they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in
legs of the first and of the other who was cru- strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of
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cified with Him. But when they came to Jesus the Jews is to bury. Now in the place where
and saw that He was already dead, they did He was crucified there was a garden, and in
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not break His legs. But one of the soldiers the garden a new tomb in which no one had
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pierced His side with a spear, and immediate- yet been laid. So there they laid Jesus, be-
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ly blood and water came out. And he who has cause of the Jews’ Preparation Day, for the
seen has testified, and his testimony is true; tomb was nearby.
DAY 12:Was there any question as to whether Jesus died or not?
In His death on the cross,Jesus finally cried out,“It is finished!”(John 19:30).The verb here car-
ries the idea of fulfilling one’s task and, in religious contexts, has the idea of fulfilling one’s religious
obligations.The entire work of redemption had been brought to completion.The single Greek word
here (translated “it is finished”) has been found in the papyri being placed on receipts for taxes
meaning paid in full (Col. 3:13,14).“He gave up His spirit.”The sentence signaled that Jesus handed
over His spirit as an act of His will. No one took His life from Him, for He voluntarily and willingly
gave it up (10:17,18).
It was “Preparation Day” (v. 31). This refers to Friday, the day before or the preparation day for
the Sabbath.“Bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath.”The normal Roman practice
was to leave crucified men and women on the cross until they died (and this could take days) and
then leave their rotting bodies hanging there to be devoured by vultures.The Mosaic Law insisted
that anyone being impaled (usually after execution) should not remain there overnight (Deut.
21:22,23). Such a person was under God’s curse, and to leave him exposed would be to desecrate
the land in their minds. So “the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken.”In order to has-
ten death for certain reasons, soldiers would smash the legs of the victim with an iron mallet. Not
only did this action induce shock and additional loss of blood, but it prevented the victim from
pushing with his legs to keep breathing, and thus the victim died due to asphyxiation.
However, the soldier’s stabbing of Jesus’ side caused significant penetration because of the
sudden flow of blood and water (v.34).Either the spear pierced Jesus’heart or the chest cavity was
pierced at the bottom. In either event, John mentioned the outflow of blood and water to empha-
size that Jesus was unquestionably dead.

His mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusa-
JUNE 13 lem. And he did what was right in the sight of
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the LORD, yet not like his father David; he did
everything as his father Joash had done. How-
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ever the high places were not taken away, and
2 Kings 14:1–29
the people still sacrificed and burned incense
In the second year of Joash the son of on the high places.
14 Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son 5 Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom
of Joash, king of Judah, became king. He was was established in his hand, that he executed
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twenty-five years old when he became king, his servants who had murdered his father the
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and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. king. But the children of the murderers he
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