Mark 15:44

Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.

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

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