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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 19:31 - 19:31
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Joh 19:31-42. Burial of Christ.
the preparation - sabbath eve.
that the bodies should not remain - over night, against the Mosaic law (Deu 21:22, Deu 21:23).
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 Pilate that their legs might be broken - to hasten their death, which was done in such cases with clubs.