36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: ‘Not one of his bones will be broken,’[a] 37 and, as another scripture says, ‘They will look on the one they have pierced.’[b]

The burial of Jesus

38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.

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Footnotes

  1. John 19:36 Exodus 12:46; Num. 9:12; Psalm 34:20
  2. John 19:37 Zech. 12:10