⁴⁴ And Pilate was surprised that he was dead; and, sending for the captain, he put a question to see if he had been dead for long.

³¹ Now it was the day of getting ready for the Passover, and so that the bodies might not be on the cross on the Sabbath (because the day of that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews made a request to Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

³² So the men of the army came, and the legs of the first were broken and then of the other who was put to death on the cross with Jesus:

³³ But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead by this time, and so his legs were not broken;

³⁴ But one of the men made a wound in his side with a spear, and straight away there came out blood and water.

³⁵ And he who saw it has given witness (and his witness is true; he is certain that what he says is true) so that you may have belief.

³⁶ These things came about so that the Writings might be true, No bone of his body will be broken.

³⁷ And again another verse says, They will see him who was wounded by their spears.