For this cause, therefore, the Jews were seeking the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the sabbath, but also called God His Father, making Himself equal with God.

Having spoken these things, Jesus went forth with His disciples beyond the winter-brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which He entered Himself and His disciples.

The soldiers, therefore, came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with Him;

but, when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was already dead, they broke not His legs;