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²³ Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and His coat and made them into four parts - to every soldier a part. And the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

²⁴ Therefore, they said one to another, “Let us not divide it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be.” This was so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted My garments among them, and on My coat they cast lots.” So indeed, the soldiers did these things.

²⁵ Then His mother stood by the cross of Jesus, and His mother’s sister, Mary (the wife of Clopas), and Mary Magdalene.

²⁶ And when Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son.”

²⁷ Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother.” And from that hour, the disciple took her as his own.

²⁸ After, when Jesus knew that all things were performed so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, “I thirst.”

²⁹ And there was set a vessel full of vinegar. And they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it around a hyssop stalk and put it to His mouth.

³⁰ Now when Jesus had received the vinegar, He said, “It is finished,” and bowed His head, and gave up the ghost.

³¹ Then the Jews (because it was the Day of Preparation, and the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day because the Sabbath was a high day) asked Pilate if their legs might be broken so that they might be taken down.

³² Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other, who were crucified with Jesus.

³³ But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was dead already, they did not break His legs.

³⁴ But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear. And immediately blood and water came out.

³⁵ And he who saw it bears witness. And his testimony is true. And he knows that he speaks the truth. So that you may believe it.

³⁶ For these things were done so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, ‘Not a bone of His shall be broken’.

³⁷ And again, another Scripture says, ‘They shall see him whom they have thrust through’.

³⁸ And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Jesus - but secretly - for fear of the Jews) asked Pilate if he might take down the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave him permission. Then, he came and took Jesus’ body.

³⁹ And Nicodemus (who first came to Jesus by night) also came and brought about a hundred pounds of myrrh and aloes, mingled together.

⁴⁰ Then they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen clothes, with the odors, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

⁴¹ And in the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden, a new sepulcher (in which no one had been laid).

⁴² Therefore, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day, they laid Jesus there (for the sepulcher was near).