'Prevent' in the Bible

But others of them asked, "Was this man who opened the blind man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?"

Since it was the day of Preparation [for the Sabbath], in order to prevent the bodies from hanging on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high holy day) the Jews asked Pilate to have their legs broken [to hasten death] and the bodies taken away.