^29 (A)And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. ^(B)And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and ^(C)raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.

²⁶ And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And ^(A)they hung on the trees until evening. ²⁷ But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and ^(B)they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

Jesus' Side Is Pierced

³¹ Since it was ^(A)the day of Preparation, and ^(B)so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was ^(C)a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.