36 For these things were done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled, (A)Not a bone of him shall be broken.

37 And again another Scripture saith, (B)They shall see him whom they have thrust through.

38 (C)[a]And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews) besought Pilate that he might take down the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave him license. He came then and took Jesus’ body.

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Footnotes

  1. John 19:38 Christ is openly buried, and in a famous place, Pilate writing and suffering it, and that by men which did favor Christ, in such wise, that yet before that day, they never openly followed him: so that by his burial, no man can justly doubt either of his death, or resurrection.

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