John 19:31-42

31Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims’ legs broken and the bodies taken down.

32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other.

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

34But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out immediately.

35And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe.

36For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”

37And again another scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”

38After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.

39Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

40Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs.

41Now at the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried.

42And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus’ body there.