John 19:31-33

Darby Translation

³¹ The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for it was [the] preparation, (for the day of that sabbath was a great [day],) demanded of Pilate that their legs might be broken and they taken away.

³² The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and of the other that had been crucified with him;

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