Mark 15:44

Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. He called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims' legs broken and the bodies taken down.

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