John 19:31-38

³¹Therefore for it was the pask eve, that the bodies should not abide or dwell on the cross in the sabbath, for that was a great sabbath day, the Jews prayed Pilate, that the hips of them should be broken, and they should be taken away.

³²Therefore knights came, and they brake the thighs of the first, and of the other, that was crucified with him.

³³But when they were come or had come to Jesus, as they saw him dead then, they brake not his thighs;

³⁴but one of the knights opened his side with a spear, and anon blood and water went out.

³⁵And he that saw, bare witnessing thereof, and his witnessing is true; and he knoweth that he saith true things, that ye believe.

³⁶And these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, Ye shall not break a bone of him.

³⁷And again another scripture saith, They shall see in whom they pierced through.

³⁸But after these things Joseph of Arimathaea prayed Pilate, that he should take away the body of Jesus, for that he was a disciple of Jesus, but privily for dread of the Jews. And Pilate suffered. And so he came, and took away the body of Jesus.