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.
40They took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.