John 19:27-39

²⁷Then he said to that disciple, “There is your mother.” And from that very hour the disciple took her to live in his house.

²⁸Afterward, knowing that everything was now finished, Jesus said, in fulfilment of the words of scripture, “I am thirsty.”

²⁹There was a bowl standing there full of common wine; so they put a sponge soaked in the wine on the end of a hyssop-stalk, and held it up to his mouth.

³⁰When Jesus had received the wine, he exclaimed, “All is finished!” Then, bowing his head, he resigned his spirit to God.

³¹It was the Preparation day, and so, to prevent the bodies from remaining on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

³²Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then those of the other who had been crucified with Jesus;

³³but, on coming to him, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

³⁴One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water immediately flowed from it.

³⁵This is the statement of one who actually saw it — and his statement may be relied on, and he knows that he is speaking the truth — and it is given in order that you also may be convinced.

³⁶For all this happened in fulfilment of the words of scripture — ‘Not one of its bones will be broken.’

³⁷And there is another passage which says — ‘They will look on him whom they pierced.’

³⁸After this, Joseph of Ramah, a disciple of Jesus — but a secret one, owing to his fear of the religious authorities — begged Pilate's permission to remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him leave; so Joseph went and removed the body.

³⁹Nicodemus, too — the man who had formerly visited Jesus by night — came with a roll of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds.