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23 [a]When the soldiers had crucified Jesus,(A) they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier.(B) They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down.

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  1. 19:23–25a While all four gospels describe the soldiers casting lots to divide Jesus’ garments (see note on Mt 27:35), only John quotes the underlying passage from Ps 22:19, and only John sees each line of the poetic parallelism literally carried out in two separate actions (Jn 19:23–24).

23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

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