Mark 15:44

Pilate was amazed to hear that Jesus had already died, so he summoned the centurion to ask him if he was in fact dead.

Since it was the Preparation Day, the Jewish leaders did not want to leave the bodies on the crosses during the Sabbath, because that was a particularly important Sabbath. So they asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.

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