Jesus’ Side Is Pierced

^31 (A)Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, ^(B)that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a ^(C)high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

¹⁴ Now ^(A)it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”

⁴² So ^(A)there they laid Jesus, ^(B)because of the Jews’ Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby.

Jesus Buried in Joseph’s Tomb^(A)

^42 (B)Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

^29 (A)And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. ^(B)And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and ^(C)raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.

Miscellaneous Laws

²² “If a man has committed a sin ^(A)deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, ^23 (B)his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that ^(C)you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance; for ^(D)he who is hanged is accursed of God.

The Soldiers Mock Jesus^(A)

19 So then ^(B)Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him.