The Jews, therefore, since it was, a preparation, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross during the Sabbath, - for that Sabbath day was, great, requested Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they be taken away.

The soldiers, therefore, came; and, of the first, indeed, brake the legs, and of the other who was crucified with him, -

but coming, unto Jesus, when they saw that, already, he was dead, they brake not his legs; -