John 19:31-34

Jesus' Side Is Pierced

³¹ Since it was _g the day of Preparation, and _h so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was _i a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. ³² So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other _j who had been crucified with him. ³³ But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴ But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out _k blood and water.

1. Cross References
   John 19:14
   Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 21:23
   His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
   Joshua 8:29
   And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.
   Joshua 10:26 - 27
   And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening.
   
3. Cross References
   Exodus 12:16
   On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
   
4. Cross References
   John 19:18
   There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
   
5. Cross References
   1 John 5:6
   This is he who came by water and blood - Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
   1 John 5:8
   The Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.