Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind."

that they all may be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in you; that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.

Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation, that the bodies should 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.