John 19:31

God's Word

Since it was Friday and the next day was an especially important day of rest—a holy day, the Jews didn’t want the bodies to stay on the crosses. So they asked Pilate to have the men’s legs broken and their bodies removed.

Cross References

Exodus 12:16

You must have a holy assembly on the first day and another one on the seventh. You must not work on these days except to prepare your own meals. That’s all you may do.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous person cares ⌞even⌟ about the life of his animals, but the compassion of wicked people is ⌞nothing but⌟ cruelty.

Micah 3:3

You eat my people’s flesh. You strip off their skin. You break their bones to pieces. You chop them up like meat for a pot, like stew meat for a kettle.

Matthew 27:62

The next day, which was the day of rest—a holy day, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together and went to Pilate.

Mark 15:42

It was Friday evening, before the day of rest—a holy day,

John 19:1

Then Pilate had Jesus taken away and whipped.

John 19:14

The time was about noon on the Friday of the Passover festival. Pilate said to the Jews, “Look, here’s your king!”

John 19:42

Joseph and Nicodemus put Jesus in that tomb, since that day was the Jewish day of preparation and since the tomb was nearby.

Joshua 8:29

Joshua hung the king of Ai’s ⌞dead body⌟ on a pole and left him there until evening. When the sun went down, Joshua gave the order to take his body down. They threw it in the entrance of the city and made a large pile of stones over it. That pile is still there today.