John 19:32 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³²Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.

John 19:32 —

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John 19:18
Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
Luke 23:39-43
And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 31-37)

This passage concerning the piercing of Christ’s side after his death is recorded only by this evangelist. I. Observe the superstition of the Jews, which occasioned it (John 19:31): Because it was the preparation for the sabbath, and that sabbath day, because it fell in the passover-week, was a high day, that they might show a veneration for the sabbath, they would not have the dead bodies to rema…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 32)

31-37. the preparation--sabbath eve. that the bodies should not remain--over night, against the Mosaic law (De 21:22, 23). on the sabbath day, for that sabbath day was an high day--or “great” day--the first day of unleavened bread, and, as concurring with an ordinary sabbath, the most solemn season of the ecclesiastical year. Hence their peculiar jealousy lest the law should be infringed. besought…